Finance andmanagement buyouts: Agency versus entrepreneurship perspectives

Venture Capital

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 239-261

  Wright, Mike ^a   Hoskisson, Robert E ^b   Busenitz, Lowell W ^c   Dial, Jay ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United Kingdom)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; LBO associations; Management buyouts; Succession; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011128651     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060110060646     Document Type: Article

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