Entrepreneurial paths to family firm performance

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 88, Issue , 2018, Pages 382-387

  Kraus, Sascha ^a   Kallmuenzer, Andreas ^b   Stieger, Daniel ^b   Peters, Mike ^b   Calabrò, Andrea ^c  

^a OMNES Education   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Witten/Herdecke University ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Family firm; fsQCA; Governance; Mixed methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044767385     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.046     Document Type: Article

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