Ownership, Board Characteristics And Non-Hostile Take-Overs In The UK: An Empirical And Predictive Analysis
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- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper analyses the corporate governance mechanisms of a sample of companies that have been acquired by friendly take-over and those of a matching control sKeywords
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