Family Control and Financing Decisions

European Financial Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 860-897

  Croci, Ettore ^a   Doukas, John A ^b   Gonenc, Halit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Debt issues; Equity issues; Family firms; Financing decisions; G32

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054760673     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2011.00631.x     Document Type: Article

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