Tréhan, Natacha - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 5 (2002) 2, pp. 143-162
This work aims to identify the reasons why a medium sized personal or family firm, implementing an external growth strategy, decide to create a holding company. It is based on an empirical study concerning 147 non-quoted French firms. Two types of holdings are distinguished "family holdings" and...