Leveraged buyouts, private equity and jobs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 419-430

  Amess, Kevin ^a   Wright, Mike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Economics Finance and Control ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Employment demand; Leveraged buyout; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955726719     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9280-9     Document Type: Article

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