Successional Issues within Asian Family Firms: Learning from the Kenyan Experience

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 77-94

  Janjuha Jivraj, Shaheena ^a   Woods, Adrian ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Asian businesses; ethnicity; family business; Kenyan Asian businesses; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997909484     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242602201006     Document Type: Article

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