Empirics in Family Business Research: Progress, Challenges, and the Path Ahead

Family Business Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 17-43

  Evert, Robert E ^a   Martin, John A ^b   McLeod, Michael S ^a   Payne, G Tyge ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

empirics; family business; research methods; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957818598     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486515593869     Document Type: Article

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