This report investigates listed family firms in the UK and focuses on their incidence, industrial and geographical context, governance and performance. At the time of writing we identified 70 family firms who were listed in the years 2007-2009. The firms were listed on the London Stock Exchange,...

The founding directors of newly incorporated companies bring social capital (reputation, networks, business relationships) and human capital (task-related, professional and director experience) to a new venture and founding boards vary in degree of heterogeneity (size, diversity, turnover). This...

Mechanical correlation bias is inherent in audit pricing studies when independent variables (X) are derived from firm level audit fees (Y); a form of endogeneity which appears not to have been addressed fully in the extant literature. Such variables are endogenous by construction leading to...