Trends in corporate diversification

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-102

  Basu, Nilanjan ^a  

^a Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversification; Focus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950458895     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-009-0123-0     Document Type: Article

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