Career choice intentions of adolescents with a family business background

Family Business Review

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-321

  Schröder, Elke ^a   Schmitt Rodermund, Eva ^a   Arnaud, Nicolas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

adolescents; career choice intention; family business; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755170653     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486511416977     Document Type: Article

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