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Location Advantages, Governance Quality, Stock Market Development and Firm Characteristics as Antecedents of African M&As

Tunyi Tunyi Abongeh, Collins G. Ntim

Journal of International Management, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 147 - 167

Swansea University Author: Tunyi Tunyi Abongeh

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This study explores firm- and country-specific antecedents of African M&As. We use one of the largest datasets to-date, consisting of 1490 unique African firms (11,183 firm-year observations) from 1996 to 2012 from 15 African countries. Our results suggest that improvements in time-varying count...

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ISSN: 1075-4253 1873-0620
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