Shareholders' choice

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-135

  Geraats, Petra M W A ^a   Haller, Hans H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Shareholder disagreement; Shareholder voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042861199     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237187     Document Type: Article

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