Financial and product market integration: Responses of Japanese firms

Management International Review

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 529-555

  Yoshikawa, Toru ^a   Rasheed, Abdul A ^b   Datta, Deepak K ^b   Rosenstein, Joseph ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial market integration; Keiretsus; Market investors; Ownership structure; Product market integration; Restructuring; Strategies of Japanese firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947539433     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-006-0114-6     Document Type: Article

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