Firm ownership and productivity: A study of family and non-family SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 953-976

  Barbera, Francesco ^a   Moores, Ken ^a  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cobb Douglas production function; Family firm; Heterogeneous input elasticity; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876690210     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9405-9     Document Type: Article

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