Shared vision promotes family firm performance

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Neff, John E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

effective culture; family business; family functionality; firm performance; predictive model; role clarity; shared vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021448191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00646     Document Type: Article

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