Stewardship or agency? A social embeddedness reconciliation of conduct and performance in public family businesses

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 704-721

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

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Family business; Social embeddedness; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959255378     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0541     Document Type: Article

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