Implicit Contracts, Takeovers and Corporate Governance: In the Shadow of the City Code

Implicit Dimensions of Contract: Discrete, Relational and Network Contracts

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 289-331

  Deakin, Simon ^a   Hobbs, Richard ^b   Nash, David ^a   Slinger, Giles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AT Kearney   (United Kingdom)

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