Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behaviour: Social Context, Identity, and Institutional Logics

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-25

  Miller, Danny ^a   Le Breton Miller, Isabelle ^a   Lester, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78649710240     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00896.x     Document Type: Article

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