A typology for capturing the heterogeneity of family firms

Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good, AOM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sharma, Pramodita ^a   Nordqvist, Mattias ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Family firms; Governance; Typology

Indexed keywords

FAMILY FIRMS; GOVERNANCE; GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS; PROPERTY RIGHT; TYPOLOGY;

MANAGERS;

EID: 84899984323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2007.26501993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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