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One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon

Bauer, D., Reif, T., & Junge, S. (2026)

European Management Journal, 44(2), 344-359

21 semi-structured interviews with searchers, investors and target CEOs. Argues search funds are a novel entry mode into entrepreneurship and that searchers are a hybrid of internal and external succession candidates ("a family business without kinship"), potentially the second-best option after internal succession.

Sourcedoi:10.1016/j.emj.2025.02.0071 citations (OpenAlex)

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Bauer, D., Reif, T., & Junge, S. (2026). One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon. European Management Journal, 44(2), 344-359.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2025.02.007

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