Internationalization pathways among family-owned SMEs

International Marketing Review

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 496-518

  Kontinen, Tanja ^a   Ojala, Arto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Family firms; Family SMEs; Finland; International business; Internationalization; Ownership; Pathways; Small to medium sized enterprises; Stewardship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865706365     PISSN: 02651335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02651331211260359     Document Type: Article

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