Advancing Family Business Research Through Narrative Analysis

Family Business Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-355

  Dawson, Alexandra ^a   Hjorth, Daniel ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

autobiography; family business; narrative analysis; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858675516     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486511421487     Document Type: Article

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