Buying stock in value-added companies: An alternative choice for vertical diversification?

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-196

  Detre, Joshua D ^a   Wilson, Christine A ^b   Gray, Allan W ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iinvestment; Risk management; Stock market; Value added; Vertical diversification; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957659946     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214660780001204     Document Type: Article

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