Division manager lobbying power and the allocation of capital

Financial Review

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-85

  McNeil, Chris R ^a   Smythe, Thomas I ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053054744     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2008.00210.x     Document Type: Article

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