‘Stick to the knitting’ vs. ‘the mysteriously potent charm of diversification’: The Greek evidence

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-227

  Droucopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Papadogonas, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

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EID: 18944393529     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199906)20:4<217::AID-MDE929>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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