The rise of activist investors and patterns of political responses: Lessons on agency

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 611-636

  Engelen, Ewald ^a   Konings, Martijn ^a   Fernandez, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Corporate governance; Financial markets; Financialization; Varieties of

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249142420     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwn012     Document Type: Article

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