Reflections on family firm goals and the assessment of performance

Journal of Family Business Strategy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 107-113

  Chua, Jess H ^a,b,c   Chrisman, James J ^d,e   De Massis, Alfredo ^f,g   Wang, Hao ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^g Lancaster University Management School   (United Kingdom)

^h ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Efficiency; Family business; Goals; Non financial benefits; Performance; Socioemotional wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042641056     PISSN: 18778585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2018.02.001     Document Type: Article

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