Impact of Family Control/Influence on Stakeholders' Perceptions of Benevolence

Family Business Review

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 356-373

  Hauswald, Hannes ^a   Hack, Andreas ^b  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

benevolence; categorization processes; family business; FIBER; SEW; socioemotional wealth; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887528840     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486513477453     Document Type: Article

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