Family Ownership, Institutional Ownership, and Internationalization of SMEsFootnote^*

* The authors thank associate editor Hermann Frank and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions. This research was supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China under Grant NSC 97‐2410‐H‐327‐004.

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