Family business going abroad: the effect of family ownership on foreign market entry mode decisions

Small Business Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 787-801

  Pongelli, Claudia ^a   Caroli, Matteo Giuliano ^a   Cucculelli, Marco ^b  

^a LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entry mode; Family firms; Internationalization; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975298339     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9763-4     Document Type: Article

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