Stepping into my shoes: Generativity as a mediator of the relationship between business owners' age and family succession

Ageing and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 673-676

  Zacher, Hannes ^a   Schmitt, Antje ^b   Gielnik, Michael M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

age; careers; family businesses; generativity; succession

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BUSINESS; FAMILY STRUCTURE; PSYCHOLOGY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84859616859     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X11000547     Document Type: Article

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