Technology stocks and economic performance of government-linked companies: The case of Malaysia

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 248-261

  Wong, Chan Yuan ^a   Govindaraju, V G R Chandran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

economic performance; government linked companies; Malaysia; technology stock

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866313424     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2012.688313     Document Type: Article

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