Capital budgeting practices: A comparative study of the Netherlands and China

International Business Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 630-654

  Hermes, Niels ^a   Smid, Peter ^a   Yao, Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; China; Cost of capital; Survey; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748835205     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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