Incumbents’ Attitude Toward Intrafamily Succession: An Investigation of Its Antecedents

Family Business Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 278-300

  De Massis, Alfredo ^a,b   Sieger, Philipp ^c   Chua, Jess H ^b,d,e   Vismara, Silvio ^f,g  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

attitude; family business essence; family firms; incumbent; intention; intrafamily succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981328303     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486516656276     Document Type: Article

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