Business history and family firms

The Sage Handbook of Family Business

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 269-294

  Colli, Andrea ^a   Pérez, Paloma Fernández ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 84952307729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446247556.n14     Document Type: Chapter

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