Entrepreneurial Risk Taking of Private Family Firms: The Influence of a Nonfamily CEO and the Moderating Effect of CEO Tenure

Family Business Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-179

  Huybrechts, Jolien ^a   Voordeckers, Wim ^a   Lybaert, Nadine ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

agency theory; entrepreneurial risk taking; nonfamily CEO; psychological ownership; socioemotional wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877675924     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486512469252     Document Type: Article

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