Review of Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Acquisition Goodwill Impairment Research
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Social Sciences
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2327-5952,2327-5960
DOI: 10.4236/jss.2020.81010