Private equity: Levered on capital or labour?

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-527

  Folkman, Peter ^a   Froud, Julie ^a   Williams, Karel ^a   Johal, Sukhdev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjuncture; Financial intermediaries; Leverage; Narrative and numbers; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449585456     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: 14729296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022185609339516     Document Type: Article

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