Management turnover in subsidiaries of conglomerates versus stand-alone firms

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-96

  McNeil, Chris ^a   Niehaus, Greg ^b   Powers, Eric ^b  

^a Black School of Business Penn State Erie   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conglomerates; Internal labor market; Management turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342280180     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(03)00190-9     Document Type: Article

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