A note on employment and gross domestic product in swedish family-owned businesses: A descriptive analysis

Family Business Review

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 362-371

  Bjuggren, Carl Magnus ^a,c   Johansson, Dan ^b,d   Sjögren, Hans ^a,c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^d DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

employment; family firms; GDP; ownership; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755170649     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486511420138     Document Type: Article

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