Investigating the actual career decisions of the next generation: The impact of family business involvement

Journal of Family Business Strategy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-44

  Murphy, Linda ^a   Lambrechts, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Careers; Family business involvement; Helping and exploration; Next generation family member; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924506513     PISSN: 18778585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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