Corten, Maarten; Steijvers, Tensie; Lybaert, Nadine - In: Accounting and Business Research 45 (2015) 1, pp. 1-26
Former audit demand studies generally consider wholly family-owned private firms as a homogeneous group of firms that incur minimal agency costs. Family firm literature, however, argues that these firms might incur significant agency costs as well and we therefore examine audit demand in this...