Family firms: Should they hire an outside CFO?

Journal of Business Strategy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-44

  Lutz, Eva ^a   Schraml, Stephanie ^b  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b SCHRAML GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFO; Corporate governance; Family firms; Non family managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455218568     PISSN: 02756668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02756661211193802     Document Type: Article

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