Internationalization and performance of Chinese family firms: The moderating role of corporate governance

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 645-678

  Lu, Jane Wenzhen ^a   Liang, Xueji ^b   Shan, Mengmeng ^c   Liang, Xiaoya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Corporate governance; Family business; Internationalization; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951954299     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/mor.2015.32     Document Type: Article

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