Value Creation through Vertical Intervention of Corporate Centres in Single Business Units of Unrelated Diversified Portfolios - The Case of Private Equity Firms

Long Range Planning

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 97-124

  Landau, Christian ^a   Bock, Carolin ^b  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS; GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS; INTANGIBLE RESOURCES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; STRATEGIC RESOURCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING;

INVESTMENTS;

INDUSTRY;

ACCESSIBILITY; ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODELING; VALUATION;

EID: 84875492519     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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