Institutional investors, corporate elites and the building of a market for corporate control

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 671-697

  Widmer, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Elites; Financialization; Firm strategy; Institutional change; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053211281     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwr014     Document Type: Article

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