Handbook of Research on Family Business

undertaken significant strides in terms of theory building, empirical rigor, development of sophisticated survey instruments, systematic measurement of family business activity, use of alternative research methodologies, and deployment of robust tools of analysis. Drawing upon these advances, this handbook brings together latest developments in family business research, including an amalgam of theory-based approaches and multi-methodological empirical papers. Contributors are leading researchers credited with shaping the family business agenda. This volume is an essential reference providing researchers, educators, trainers, family business owner-managers, students, and other stakeholders with a valuable and scholarly compendium of extant family business papers. The International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), renowned for its global network of family business researcher, has supported this initiative,

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