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Inter Vivos Transfers of Ownership in Family Firms
Hines Jr., James R.; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina; … - 2021
This paper examines the determinants of inter vivos (lifetime) transfers of ownership in German family firms between 2000 and 2013. Survey evidence indicates that owners of larger firms, and firms with strong current business conditions, transfer ownership at higher rates than others. When a...
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Inside the Family Firm : The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance
Bennedsen, Morten - 2014
This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate the impact of family characteristics in corporate decision making and the consequences of these decisions on firm performance. We focus on the decision to appoint either a family or external chief executive officer (CEO). The paper...
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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011
The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...
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Must Love Kill the Family Firm?
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2010
Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse), family firms are eventually doomed. This is the essence of the critique of family firms in...
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...
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Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box : Complements or Substitutes?
Haltiwanger, John - 2014
In part due to the popular perception that Big-Boxes displace smaller, often family owned (a.k.a. Mom-and-Pop) retail establishments, several empirical studies have examined the evidence on how Big-Boxes' impact local retail employment but no clear consensus has emerged. To help shed light on...
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The Great Pyramids of America : A Revised History of Us Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950
Kandel, Eugene - 2013
Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed firms control other listed firms. Hand-collected historical data illuminate how the present ownership structure of the United States arose: (1)...
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Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations
Mueller, Holger M. - 2007
Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that...
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Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2010
: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working as bicycle-taxi drivers. Despite large withdrawal fees, a substantial … share of market women used the accounts, were able to save more, and increased their productive investment and private … market women in our study context. Further work is needed to understand what those barriers are, and to test whether the …
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Mixing Family with Business : A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
Families run a large fraction of business groups around the world. In this paper, we analyze how the structure of the families behind these business groups affects the groups' organization, governance and performance. To address this question, we constructed a unique data set of family trees and...
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