Internal Capital Markets: Benefits, Costs, and Organizational Arrangements

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-76

  Liebeskind, Julia Porter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Internal capital markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034418980     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.1.58.12568     Document Type: Article

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