The impact of private and family firms' relational strength on financing performance in clusters

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 735-748

  Song, Hua ^a   Wang, Lan ^b  

^a Renmin University of China   (China)

^b BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Financing performance; Industrial clusters; Private and family firms; Relational strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881368524     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-012-9316-6     Document Type: Article

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