Internationalization of family businesses through strategic alliances: An exploratory study

Handbook of Research on Family Business

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 445-459

  Cappuyns, Kristin ^a  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

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