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Entrepreneurship in Family Business

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As many have observed, the passion for entrepreneurship is robustly growing, not only in the business areas but also on the academic frontiers. It has become a worldwide trend that business schools offer subjects and programmes on entrepreneurship, traditionally at postgraduate and executive levels and more recently in undergraduate curricula.

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Shi, H.X. (2014). Introduction. In: Entrepreneurship in Family Business. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04304-3_1

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