Employee buyouts: Causes, structure, and consequences

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-332

  Chaplinsky, Susan ^a   Niehaus, Greg ^b   Van De Gucht, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Employee ownership; ESOP; G34; Labor contracts; LBO

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039394504     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(98)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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