Chinese Private Firms and Internationalization: Effects of Family Involvement in Management and Family Ownership

Family Business Review

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 126-141

  Liang, Xiaoya ^a   Wang, Lihua ^b   Cui, Zhiyu ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; exporting; family involvement; family ownership; foreign direct investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899694207     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486513480885     Document Type: Article

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