Corporate Governance and Firm Diversification
Preprint
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We empirically investigate the relationship between corporate governance structure and diversification. Using a sample of 199 firms beginning in 1985 and followKeywords
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