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Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2005
This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, have smaller equity increases, are more highly levered and grow more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297463
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Corporate Governance: The Role of Other Constituencies
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 1997
The paper discusses the role of various constituencies in the corporate governance of a corporation from the perspective of incomplete contracts. A strict shareholder value orientation in the sense of a rule that at any time firm decisions should be made strictly in the interest of the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316256
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Capital structure decisions in family firms: empirical evidence from a bank-based economy
Ampenberger, Markus; Schmid, Thomas; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2009
This study examines how family firm characteristics affect capital structure decisions. In our analysis we disentangle the influence of three distinct components of a family firm: ownership, supervisory and management board activities by the founding family. Thereby, we use a unique panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305690
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Loss of control vs. risk reduction: decision factors for hiring non-family CFOs in family firms
Lutz, Eva; Schraml, Stephanie; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2010
explore the perceptions of family firm owners towards external managers by analyzing how their family-specific and company … providers. Prior work: Prior research has acknowledged that the attitude to external managers is a major concern for family … independence and control is high. Furthermore, they do not seem to trust external managers to act in accordance to their goal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305711
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Benefits of Control, capital structure and company growth
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2005
This paper studies the influence of the benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies for a sample of 8,964 UK companies with limited liability observed for up to 5 years. It is hypothesised that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297810
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Erklärungsfaktoren für den Einsatz von Währungsderivaten bei deutschen Unternehmen - eine empirische Logit-Analyse
Gebhardt, Günther; Ruß, Oliver - 2002
Untersuchungsgegenstand ist der empirische Gehalt der ökonomischen Theorie eines Hedgings auf Unternehmensebene. In den USA wurde die Hedging-Theorie in einer Reihe von empirischen Studien aufgegriffen. Die Befunde sind zumeist konsistent mit dem Erklärungsansatz von Froot/Scharfstein/Stein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316288
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Power, rent extraction, and executive compensation
Bebchuk, Lucian; Fried, Jesse - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 3, pp. 23-28
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Is More Entrepreneurship better?
Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - 2009
We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325799
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Why Butterflies Don't Leave. Locational behaviour of entrepreneurial firms
Stam, Erik - 2006
Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development. Especially the continued growth of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263567
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Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, Jens - 2001
This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...
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