Purpose In many countries, small and medium-sizes enterprises (SMEs) are primarily responsible for wealth, economic growth, innovation research development. this paper, the authors examine impact of family ownership owner involvement on financial performance unlisted Finnish SMEs. Design/methodology/approach This is an empirical paper using a random sample 1,137 non-listed Through regression an...

In some classes of models, taxes at the owner level are “neutral” and have no effect on firm activity. However, this tax neutrality is sensitive to assumptions and no longer holds in more complex models. We review recent research that incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between taxes and business activity – particularly entrepreneurship. Dividend taxes on owners of large firms ...

We consider a bargaining problem where one of the players, the intellectual property rights owner (IPRO) can allocate licenses for the use of this property among the interested parties (agents). The agents negotiate with him the allocation of licenses and the payments of the licensees to the IPRO. We state …ve axioms and characterize the bargaining solutions which satisfy these axioms. In a sol...

With reference to the discussion about shareholder versus stakeholder maximization it is argued that the normal type of maximization is in fact stakeholder-owner maximization. This means maximization of the sum of the value of the shares and stakeholder benefits belonging to the dominating stakeholder-owner. Maximization of shareholder value is a special case of owner-maximization, and only und...