Strategic Orientations and Their Effects on Firm Performance in Turkish Family Owned Firms

Eurasian Business Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-36

  Altindag, Erkut ^a   Zehir, Cemal ^a   Acar, A Zafer ^b  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

empirical study; Family owned firms; firm performance; strategic orientations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879814776     PISSN: 13094297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14208/BF03353796     Document Type: Article

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