Spousal capital as a resource for couples starting a business

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-73

  Matzek, Amanda E ^a   Gudmunson, Clinton G ^a   Danes, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family owned business; Firm emergence; Gender; Social capital; Spousal capital; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952055249     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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