Family ownership and the cost of under-diversification

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 1721-1737

  Heaney, Richard ^a   Holmen, Martin ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; FIRM SIZE; MARKET CONDITIONS; METHODOLOGY; SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS;

EID: 57049150345     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100701735912     Document Type: Article

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