A socioemotional wealth approach to CEO career horizons in family firms

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 555-583

  Strike, Vanessa M ^a   Berrone, Pascual ^b   Sapp, Stephen G ^c   Congiu, Lorenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

CEO career horizon; Family CEO; Family firms; Socioemotional wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928762845     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12123     Document Type: Article

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