Professionalization of Family Business and Performance Effect

Family Business Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-364

  Lien, Yung Chih ^a   Li, Shaomin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate governance; family controlled; post IPO performance; professionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911188710     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486513482971     Document Type: Article

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