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Family firm succession: Lessons from failures in external party takeovers

Meier, O., & Schier, G. (2014)

Journal of Family Business Strategy, 5(4), 372-383

Five failed external takeovers of SMEs (French authors), interviews with sellers and acquirers. Identifies five managerial errors linked to external acquirers' cognitive biases. One of very few studies of failed individual acquisitions. (Abstract source: EconPapers/RePEc.)

Sourcedoi:10.1016/j.jfbs.2014.05.00128 citations (OpenAlex)

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Meier, O., & Schier, G. (2014). Family firm succession: Lessons from failures in external party takeovers. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 5(4), 372-383.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2014.05.001

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