TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting the study of family businesses
T2 - Methodological challenges, dilemmas, and alternative approaches
AU - Winter, Mary
AU - Fitzgerald, Margaret A.
AU - Heck, Ramona K.Z.
AU - Haynes, George W.
AU - Danes, Sharon M.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Family businesses are vital but understudied economic and social units. Previous family business research is limited relative to its definitions, sampling, and resulting empirical evidence. This paper presents an alternative methodological approach to the study of family businesses with the potential for allowing multiperspective and detailed analyses of the nature and internal dynamics of both the family and the business and the interaction between the two.
AB - Family businesses are vital but understudied economic and social units. Previous family business research is limited relative to its definitions, sampling, and resulting empirical evidence. This paper presents an alternative methodological approach to the study of family businesses with the potential for allowing multiperspective and detailed analyses of the nature and internal dynamics of both the family and the business and the interaction between the two.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1741-6248.1998.00239.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1741-6248.1998.00239.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3242683859
SN - 0894-4865
VL - 11
SP - 239
EP - 252
JO - Family Business Review
JF - Family Business Review
IS - 3
ER -