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Family-centered goals, family board representation, and debt financing

verfasst von: Vincent Molly, Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Alfredo De Massis, Eddy Laveren

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 1/2019

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This study investigates the effect of both family-centered goals and family board representation (family member representation on the board of directors) on family firm capital structure. Based on a sample of 327 Belgian family SMEs, our findings show that family-centered goals indirectly affect the total debt rate through family board representation. More specifically, the results indicate that this mediating effect holds primarily for the short-term (vs. long-term) debt rate and for the financial (vs. nonfinancial) debt rate. Taken together, our findings suggest that the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective is relevant and fruitful to explain debt decisions in family firms. Our findings contribute to family business literature and enable scholars and practitioners to gain a better understanding of family firm capital structure decisions.

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While the financial crisis began in 2007 in the USA, in Belgium, the crisis did not begin until the last quarter of 2008. Furthermore, in Belgium, corporate credit supply was only affected from 2009 onwards (Vermoesen et al. 2013). Thus, the period covered in this research (i.e., through 2008) was still protected in Belgium from the major shifts taking place elsewhere.

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Titel: Family-centered goals, family board representation, and debt financing
verfasst von: Vincent Molly
Lorraine M. Uhlaner
Alfredo De Massis
Eddy Laveren
Publikationsdatum: 07.05.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0058-9

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