Board of directors in Italian public family-controlled companies

Handbook of Research on Family Business

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 488-500

  Corbetta, Guido ^a   Minichilli, Alessandro ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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