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Management ownership and market valuation

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Morck, Randall, Shleifer, Andrei, Vishny, Robert W.·1988·Journal of Financial Economics

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We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a firm is run by a member of the founding family than when it is run by an officer unrelated to the founder.

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Authors
Morck, R., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. W.
Venue
Journal of Financial Economics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1988-01
Volume
20
Pages
293-315
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0304-405X (ISSN-L)
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journal article
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