Restructuring through spin‐off or sell‐off: transforming information asymmetries into financial gain

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  2008

• Venue

  Strategic Management Journal

• Publication date

  2008-02-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1002/SMJ.652
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