Valorisation boursière comparée des entreprises familiales et non familiales au Japon

Abstract

This paper investigates whether being a family business or not effects a company’s stock market valuation in the context of Japan. Our empirical investigation involved ninety pairs of listed companies, each pair consisting of one family and one non-family business of the same size and from the same industry. We found that there is little difference between the way family and non-family businesses are evaluated by financial markets. The tendency is even to award better valuations to non-family businesses, for reasons that this paper attempts to identify.

Keywords

• Stock Market Valuation
• Family Business
• Japan