Henn, Marisa; Lutz, Eva - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 18 (2016) 2, pp. 1-46
Our aim is to empirically examine how reasons for using private equity (PE) and prior experience with PE affect the willingness of privately held firms to cede company control. Based on a questionnaire entailing 75 privately held firms backed by PE, we show that family firms cede less control...