What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do

By Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan, Vladimir Mukharlyamov. 2016

295 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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How researchers see this paper

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In Accounting

1. Joern H. Block
2. Silvio Vismara
3. Christian Fisch
4. René Andres
5. Shai Bernstein
6. A. Sheen
7. Paul P. Momtaz
8. Song Ma

In Strategy and Management

1. Silvio Vismara
2. Shai Bernstein
3. A. Sheen
4. Joern H. Block
5. Christian Fisch

Citations in the corpus

• Private equity investment criteria: An experimental conjoint analysis of venture capital, business angels, and family offices (2019, background): “This is lamentable, considering that PE investors devote considerable resources to evaluating and screening investment opportunities (Kaplan and Strömberg, 2001; Gompers et al., 2016).”
• The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry (2016, background): “Recent survey evidence suggests that PE firms improve management practices (Bloom, Sadun, and Van Reenen 2009) and engage in operational engineering (Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov 2014).”