The characteristics of family firms: exploiting information on ownership, kinship, and governance using total population data
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- Andersson, Fredrik W. & Johansson, Dan & Karlsson, Johan & Lodefalk, Magnus & Poldahl, Andreas, 2018. "The Characteristics of Family Firms: Exploiting Information on Ownership, Kinship and Governance Using Total Population Data," HUI Working Papers 135, HUI Research.
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Keywords
Entrepreneur; Family firms; Employment; GDP; Register data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- L53 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Enterprise Policy
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