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Family Control of Firms and Industries

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Villalonga, Belén, Amit, Raphael·2010·Financial Management
DOI 10.1111/j.1755-053x.2010.01098.x
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We test what explains family control of firms and industries and find that the explanation is largely contingent on the identity of families and individual blockholders. Founders and their families are more likely to retain control when doing so gives the firm a competitive advantage, thereby benefiting all shareholders. In contrast, nonfounding families and individual blockholders are more likely to retain control when they can appropriate private benefits of control. Families are more likely to maintain control when the efficient scale is small, the need to monitor employees is high, investment horizons are long, and the firm has dual‐class stock.

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Authors
Villalonga, B., & Amit, R.
Venue
Financial Management
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-09
Volume
39
Issue
3
Pages
863-904
ISSN
  • 0046-3892 (ISSN-L)
  • 1755-053X
DOI
10.1111/j.1755-053x.2010.01098.x
OpenAlex
W3123693218
Cited by
394
References
45
FWCI
30.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
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