Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?

Review of Accounting and Finance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 86-100

  Feroz, Ehsan H ^a   Kim, Sungsoo ^b   Raab, Ray ^c  

^a University of Washington Tacoma   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate Governance; DEA; Merger; Performance Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849105471     PISSN: 14757702     EISSN: 17587700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb043432     Document Type: Review

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