The impact of vote differentiation on investment performance in listed family firms

Family Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-340

  Bjuggren, Per Olof ^a,b   Palmberg, Johanna ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

corporate governance; dual class shares; family firms; firm performance; investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649494528     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486510379001     Document Type: Article

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