Succession financing in family firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 315-334

  Koropp, Christian ^a   Grichnik, Dietmar ^a   Gygax, André F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Debt financing; Decision making; Family firms; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880034979     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9442-z     Document Type: Article

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