Post-Privatization Effects of Management and Employee Buy-outs

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-352

  Wright, Mike ^a   Buck, Trevor ^b   Filatotchev, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0242370937     PISSN: 13704788     EISSN: 14678292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8292.00195     Document Type: Article

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