Integrating Time Into Family Business Research: Using Random Coefficient Modeling to Examine Temporal Influences on Family Firm Ambidexterity

Family Business Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-34

  Allison, Thomas H ^a   McKenny, Aaron Francis ^a   Short, Jeremy Collin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

ambidexterity; family firms; random coefficient modeling; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893597019     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486513494782     Document Type: Article

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