Agency, strategic entrepreneurship, and the performance of private equity-backed buyouts

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 213-239

  Meuleman, Miguel ^a,b   Amess, Kevin ^b   Wright, Mike ^b   Scholes, Louise ^b  

^a VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 58149305644     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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