Innovation and family ownership: Empirical evidence from India

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-23

  Lodh, Suman ^b   Nandy, Monomita ^b   Chen, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corporate Governance; Family Firms; Indian Business Group; Innovation Productivity; Patent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891938820     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/corg.12034     Document Type: Article

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