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Difficulties ans risks of interSME cooperation : solutions provided by private-equity firms
[Difficultés et risques des coopérations inter-PME : Les solutions apportées par les sociétés de capital-investissement]

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  • Kirsten Burkhardt

    (CREGO - Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations (EA 7317) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE])

Abstract

This article analyses the difficulties and risks small to medium sized companies (SME) encounter while forming interfirm cooperation, and the roles private equity-firms play, reducing those risks. SME mainly face higher information asymmetries and uncertainty compared to bigger companies. Private equity-firms help reduce both factors and to establish a situation of trust between the future interfirm cooperation partners. They thereby prevail the transaction to fail. A multiple case study of explanatory design, conducted on the French private equity market, details these major results.

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  • Kirsten Burkhardt, 2016. "Difficulties ans risks of interSME cooperation : solutions provided by private-equity firms [Difficultés et risques des coopérations inter-PME : Les solutions apportées par les sociétés de capital-," Post-Print hal-01439878, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01439878
    DOI: 10.7202/1038333ar
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