Must love kill the family firm? Some exploratory evidence

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1121-1148

  Mehrotra, Vikas ^a   Morck, Randall ^a,b   Shim, Jungwook ^c   Wiwattanakantang, Yupana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 81255209544     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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