Challengers, elites, and owning families: A social class theory of corporate acquisitions in the 1960s

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-120

  Palmer, Donald ^a   Barber, Brad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2667126     Document Type: Article

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