Value creation and value appropriation in innovation process in publicly-traded family firms

Management Decision

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1921-1952

  Memili, Esra ^a   Fang, Hanqing Chevy ^b   Welsh, Dianne H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family firms; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944726956     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-06-2014-0391     Document Type: Article

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