The Salience of Market, Bureaucratic, and Clan Controls in the Management of Family Firm Transitions: Some Tentative Australian Evidence

Family Business Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-106

  Moores, Ken ^a   Mula, Joseph ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Queensland Business College   (Australia)

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EID: 84996211767     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6248.2000.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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