Bouzgarrou, Houssam; Navatte, Patrick - In: International Review of Financial Analysis 27 (2013) C, pp. 123-134
This paper investigates the impact of family control on French acquirers' performance. We consider a sample of 239 acquisitions undertaken by French listed companies between January 1997 and December 2006. Comparing both, short-term and long-term performance, we find that family-controlled firms...