The selection of friendly take-over targets in the UK: some empirical evidence

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 550-557

  Weir, Charlie ^a   Laing, David ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Financial performance; Mergers and acquisitions; Performance; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986172653     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310484876     Document Type: Article

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