The Decline of Social Entrenchment: Social Network Cohesion and Board Responsiveness to Shareholder Activism

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  2017

• Venue

  Organ. Sci.

• Publication date

  2017-04-05

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/orsc.2017.1119
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