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Internal versus external ownership transition in family firms: An embeddedness perspective

Wiklund, J., Nordqvist, M., Hellerstedt, K., & Bird, M. (2013)

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(6), 1319-1340

Longitudinal data on 3,829 family firms and their ownership transitions (the Swedish register research programme; country not named in the abstract). Ownership dispersion, number of potential heirs, multigenerational involvement and a family CEO predict internal versus external transition. Focus is ownership transition, not management succession.

Sourcedoi:10.1111/etap.12068132 citations (OpenAlex)

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Wiklund, J., Nordqvist, M., Hellerstedt, K., & Bird, M. (2013). Internal versus external ownership transition in family firms: An embeddedness perspective. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(6), 1319-1340.

https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12068

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