Family Firm Types Based on the Professionalization Construct: Exploratory Research

Family Business Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-99

  Dekker, Julie C ^a   Lybaert, Nadine ^a   Steijvers, Tensie ^a,b   Depaire, Benoît ^a,b   Mercken, Roger ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

family business; family firm typology; model based clustering; professionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875341251     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486512445614     Document Type: Article

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