The determinants of cash holdings in private family firms

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 537-560

  Steijvers, Tensie ^a   Niskanen, Mervi ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Cash; D22; Descendant CEO; Family firms; G32; M40; Outside CEO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877627697     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00467.x     Document Type: Article

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