Meta-analyses of financial performance and equity: Fusion or confusion?

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-26

  Dalton, Dan R ^b   Daily, Catherine M ^b   Certo, S Trevis ^a   Roengpitya, Rungpen ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0037298037     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30040673     Document Type: Article

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