The economic impact of private equity: What we know and what we would like to know

Venture Capital

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-21

  Wright, Mike ^a,b   Gilligan, John ^c   Amess, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PKF (UK) LLP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Firm performance; Management buyouts; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449168965     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060802151887     Document Type: Article

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