CORPORATE DIVESTITURE INTENSITY IN RESTRUCTURING FIRMS: EFFECTS OF GOVERNANCE, STRATEGY, AND PERFORMANCE.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 October 1994
Robert E. Hoskisson, R. A. Johnson, Douglas D. Moesel
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Both inadequate governance and inappropriate strategy have been proposed as antecedents of the divestment activity of restructuring firms in the 1980s. We combined both views in a structural equati...
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