Abstract:
The present study investigates the impact on wealth creation for shareholders when businesses are both family-owned and have ESOPs. Using data for 109 large quoted French firms from the SBF250 index, the study tends to confirm that family-controlled firms create more shareholder value but open their capital to non-management employees less often than non-family businesses do. The supposed positive impact of non-managing employee ownership on wealth creation is not confirmed. It is interesting to observe that the principle shareholder possesses a weaker block of power when there is a non-management employee ownership. This fact tends to show the instrumentation of non-management employee shareholders in order to entrench the family ownership and control.
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