Parent-Child Relationships: Planting the Seeds of Deviant Behavior in the Family Firm

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 369-386

  Eddleston, Kimberly A ^a   Kidwell, Roland E ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 84858416770     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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