Ownership matters: Private equity and the political division of ownership

Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 543-561

  Erturk, Ismail ^a   Froud, Julie ^a   Johal, Sukhdev ^b   Leaver, Adam ^a   Williams, Karel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business model; financialization; ownership; private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956337535     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410372929     Document Type: Article

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