Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 36 (4) , 583-613
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2393275
Abstract
This study compares the agency theory of the firm with interorganizational theory in examining the factors associated with the adoption of the poison pill-a tak...This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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