Pay-out policies in founding family firms

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 330-344

  Isakov, Dušan ^a   Weisskopf, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dividends; Family income; Founding family firms; Minority shareholders; Pay out policy; Reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943816469     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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