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Articles

Shareholders’ indifference… short-term market reaction to firms’ first and subsequent acquisitions: evidence from China

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Pages 3490-3511 | Received 12 Jan 2021, Accepted 20 Oct 2021, Published online: 31 Jan 2022

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