The effect of ESOP adoptions on corporate performance: are there really performance changes?

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 167-180

  Pugh, William N ^a   Oswald, Sharon L ^a   Jahera, John S ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3142745231     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.971     Document Type: Article

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