Impact of insurers' product variety on performance across underwriting cycles

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 359-374

  Elango, B ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insurance; Markets; Performance management; Underwriting

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549118747     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910938966     Document Type: Article

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