This study investigates economic causes and consequences of large corporate divestitures between 1983 and 1987. Prior empirical evidence suggests that ยฎrms hold on to poorly performing operating units for many years before divestiture. An agency-cost explanation for `holding on to losers' has been p
The economic causes and consequences of the Bougainville crisis
โ Scribed by Herb Thompson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4207
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