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Acquisitions, disclosed goals and firm characteristics : a content analysis of family and nonfamily firms

Worek, Maija; De Massis, Alfredo; Wright, Mike; Veider, … - In: Journal of family business strategy 9 (2018) 4, pp. 250-267

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What are the Wage and Employment Consequences of Leveraged Buyouts, Private Equity and Acquisitions in the UK?

Amess, Kevin - 2008

corporate acquisitions on employment and wages using a uniquely constructed panel data set covering the period 1996 … unrelated acquisitions have employment consequences of a similar magnitude, (2) related and unrelated acquisitions have the … largest negative impact on employment followed by non-private equity backed LBOs, (3) acquisitions in the same industry cause …

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Barbarians at the Gate? Leveraged Buyouts, Private Equity and Jobs

Amess, Kevin - 2008

Unions, private equity practitioners and policy-makers are all concerned with the effect that private equity finance and LBOs (Leveraged Buyouts) have on employment. Unions are concerned with job destruction whilst practitioners argue they create jobs. Using a panel of 533 LBOs observed over the...

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The Wage and Employment Effects of Leveraged Buyouts in the UK

Amess, Kevin - 2008

Using a unique hand-collected dataset, this study determines and quantifies the effects of LBOs (leveraged buyouts) on wages and employment in 1,350 LBOs. Based on an unbalanced panel 5,369 firms observed over the period 1999-2004, we find that all LBOs taken together have an insignificant...

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International Entrepreneurship : Managerial and Policy Implications

Cumming, Douglas J.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Siegel, Donald S. - 2009

This paper provides an overview of the literature on international entrepreneurship (henceforth, IE). In doing so, we adopt a broad perspective on IE, consistent with the notion that entrepreneurship refers to how opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated and...

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State Capitalism in International Context : Varieties and Variations

Wright, Mike; Wood, Geoffrey; Musacchio, Aldo; … - 2021

State interventions in markets assume varieties of forms in different economic systems. To capture this variety, we consider state capitalism as a multidimensional concept, first reviewing its historical evolution from both practical and scholarly vantages. We describe several dimensions of...

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