CEO overconfidence, CEO dominance and corporate acquisitions

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 358-379

  Brown, Rayna ^a   Sarma, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate acquisitions; Dominance; Independent board; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447498821     PISSN: 01486195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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