Identification of corporate distress in UK industrials: A conditional probability analysis approach

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 73-82

  Lin, L ^a   Piesse, J ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1242288455     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000176344     Document Type: Article

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