Creative destruction? Evidence that buyouts shed jobs to raise returns

Venture Capital

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Cressya, Robert ^a   Munari, Federico ^b   Malipiero, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buyouts; Employment; Job creation; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951486685     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2010.490066     Document Type: Article

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