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Does governance affect corporate diversification behaviour in emerging markets?

Pinar Senera Department of Finance, EDC Paris Business School, OCRE-Lab, Courbevoie Cedex, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Elif Akben-Selcukb Department of Business Administration, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Turkey
Pages 1238-1242 | Published online: 11 Oct 2019

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