Focusing the corporate product: Securities analysts and de-diversification

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 591-619

  Zuckerman, Ezra W ^a  

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EID: 0034336992     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2667110     Document Type: Article

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