 The role of debt in the family business succession problemMaximiliano González (maz.gonza@urosario.edu.co),
Bernardo Misle and
Jorge Prado
No 22, Galeras. Working Papers Series from Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Administración. School of Management Abstract: This paper studies the typical succession problem in family businesses with respect to the hiring or not a professional manager once the founder decides to retire. Burkart et al. (2003) show how a legal framework is an important determinant in solving this problem. We extend their model in order to consider the possibility that the founder uses bank debt to alleviate monitoring cost. We Önd that bank debt plays also an important role in family businesses succession problem and gives an alternative explanation of why family Örms in emerging market countries are mostly Önanced through the banking system and do not áoat their own shares in the capital markets. Keywords: Family business; succession; capital structure; emerging markets (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uac:somwps:022 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Galeras. Working Papers Series from Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Administración. School of Management Contact information at EDIRC. |
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