Financial reporting quality in private equity backed companies: The impact of ownership concentration

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-274

  Beuselinck, Christof ^a   Manigart, Sophie ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Financial reporting quality; Governance; Ownership structure; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548078540     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9022-1     Document Type: Article

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