Portfolio entrepreneurship in family firms: A resource-based perspective

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 327-351

  Sieger, Philipp ^a   Zellweger, Thomas ^a   Nason, Robert S ^b   Clinton, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Family firms; Portfolio entrepreneurship; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858657255     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.120     Document Type: Article

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