Dealing with increasing family complexity to achieve transgenerational potential in family firms

Transgenerational Entrepreneurship: Exploring Growth and Performance in Family Firms Across Generations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 167-194

  Bieto, Eugenia ^a   Gimeno, Alberto ^a   Parada, María José ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

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