Pricing companies: Ethno-accounting of private equity activity
How do private equity firms decide on a fair price for a business? Drawing on 76 semi-structured interviews, this article contributes to the sociology of finance and valuation studies by showing that pricing companies is not just a valuation operation but also a capital-repartition issue. In so doin...
Main Author: | Marlène Benquet |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2019-12-01
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Series: | Finance and Society |
Online Access: | http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/4138 |
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