Family-owned manufacturing SMEs and innovativeness: A comparison between within-family successions and external takeovers

Journal of Family Business Strategy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 162-173

  Grundström, Christina ^a   Öberg, Christina ^b   öhrwall Rönnbäck, Anna ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Family business; Innovativeness; Manufacturing; SME; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866000639     PISSN: 18778585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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