Does asset ownership always motivate managers? Outside options and the property rights theory of the firm

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 361-386

  De Meza, David ^a   Lockwood, Ben ^a  

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EID: 0013404860     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003355398555621     Document Type: Article

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