Ownership structure and corporate diversification

Business and Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-105

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Li, Xi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diversification; Firm performance; Ownership; State owned

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646391994     PISSN: 14693569     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1144     Document Type: Review

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