Discretionary disclosure of proprietary information in a multisegment firm

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-658

  Arya, Anil ^a   Frimor, Hans ^b   Mittendorf, Brian ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Competition; Disclosure

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; FULL DISCLOSURES; MULTI-SEGMENT; MULTIPLE MARKETS; PROPRIETARY INFORMATION;

PROFITABILITY;

COMPETITION;

EID: 77950803565     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1126     Document Type: Article

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