Corporate financial structure of South Korea after Asian financial crisis: the chaebol experience
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Corporate financial structure of South Korea after Asian financial crisis: the chaebol experience
1 Background The chaebol, a South Korean form of business conglomerate, has been a key factor in the country’s economic growth. In general, a group of large-scale, family-run management enterprises is referred to as a chaebol. Jones and Sakong (1980) defined a chaebol as the Korean term for a conglomerate of many companies clustered and managed by one family-centered parent company. The charact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Structures
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2193-2409
DOI: 10.1186/s40008-017-0085-8