Strategic reference points in family firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 597-619

  Kotlar, Josip ^a   De Massis, Alfredo ^a,b   Fang, Hanqing ^c,d   Frattini, Federico ^e  

^a Lancaster University   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Family goals; Family management; Heterogeneity of family firms; R D investments; Strategic reference points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942256644     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9556-6     Document Type: Article

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