Transgenerational entrepreneurship: Exploring entrepreneurial orientation in family firms

Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-116

  Nordqvist, Mattias ^a,b   Habbershon, Timothy G ^b   Melin, Leif ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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