The Role of the Board and Its Interaction with the Successor's Human Capital in the Asian Family Enterprise

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 65-88

  Lee, Soo Hoon ^a   Phan, Phillip H ^b   Yoshikawa, Toru ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Firm performance; Human capital; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993008470     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200800008     Document Type: Review

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