Social identity theory and the family business: A contribution to understanding family business dynamics

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 76-86

  Schmidts, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

family business; family dynamics; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940171983     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.2013.20.2.76     Document Type: Article

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