Female directors and UK company acquisitiveness

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-86

  Dowling, Michael ^a   Aribi, Zakaria Ali ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female directors; Overconfidence; Takeovers; Zero inflated Poisson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878367832     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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