Family Business Studies

Alfredo De Massis, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, IMD Business School, Switzerland and Lancaster University, UK, Pramodita Sharma, Schlesinger-Grossman Endowed Chair in Family Business, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, US, Jess H. Chua, Professor of Finance and Family Business Governance, University of Calgary, Canada and Zhejiang University, China, and James J. Chrisman, Professor of Management, Mississippi State University, US and Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada

• Contents: Preface 1. Overview of the Contents of the Family Business Annotated Bibliography 2. State of the Art of Family Business Research with Josip Kotlar 3. Trends in Family Business Empirical Research with Josip Kotlar 4. The Family Business Annotated Bibliography Index

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