Cofounders and the Value of Family Firms

Jae-Seung Baek and Jungmin Kim

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, vol. 51, issue S3, 20-33

Abstract: Prior literature documents the positive effect of the founder’s role on family-firm value. In this study, we examine whether the existence of cofounders has any effect on family firm value. We find that the outperformance of founder family firms is concentrated in family firms with cofounders as measured by Tobin’s q. Our results are robust when we use return on assets (ROA) as an alternative measure. These findings suggest that the presence of cofounders would reduce the potential risk arising from the absence of the sole founder and the power concentration in the sole founder and thus lead to higher firm value.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2015.1039899

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