The dynamics of voting ownership in lone-founder, family-founder, and heir firms

Journal of Family Business Strategy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-96

  Achleitner, Ann Kristin ^a   Kaserer, Christoph ^a   Kauf, Tobias ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Family founder firm; Heir firm; Individual blockholder; Lone founder firm; Ownership dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861712586     PISSN: 18778585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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