Information sharing, price egotiation and management buy-outs of private family-owned firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-349

  Scholes, M Louise ^a   Wright, Mike ^a   Westhead, Paul ^a   Burrows, Andrew ^a   Bruining, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Family firms; Information asymmetry negotiation behaviour; Management buy out; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548101718     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9024-z     Document Type: Article

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