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Corporate governance and hostile takeovers
In the preceding paper Shivdasani (1993) estimates equations predicting the probability of a hostile takeover as a function of governance characteristics. He finds that additional outside directorships by board members decrease the probability of a takeover. Ownership by management and by affiliated blockholders also decreases the probability of a takeover, while ownership by unaffiliated block...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR)
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2157-8834,0892-7626
DOI: 10.19030/jabr.v7i3.6228