Ownership concentration, family control and performance of firms

European Management Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-131

  Hamadi, Malika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

family firms; ownership concentration; Tobin's Q; voting blocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954434286     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/emr.2010.9     Document Type: Article

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