Are family ownership and control in large firms good, bad, or irrelevant?

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-39

  Jiang, Yi ^a   Peng, Mike W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Family firms; Family ownership; Institution based theory of corporate governance; Principal principal conflicts

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751579000     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-010-9228-2     Document Type: Article

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