Strategic changes in family firms post management buyout: Ownership and governance issues

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 505-521

  Scholes, Louise ^a   Wright, Mike ^a,b   Westhead, Paul ^c,d   Bruining, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Bodo Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

Author keywords

Family firm; governance; management buyout; ownership; private equity; strategy; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049317776     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610370390     Document Type: Article

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