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title: Corporate Culture and Takeover Vulnerability: Evidence from Machine Learning and Earnings Conference Calls
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4626185/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4626185
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4626185
featured: 2023-11-08
citations: 2
topic: ML & AI Methods
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# Corporate Culture and Takeover Vulnerability: Evidence from Machine Learning and Earnings Conference Calls

Research using machine learning indicates that the threat of hostile takeovers can significantly weaken a company's culture, supporting the managerial myopia hypothesis.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4626185
- Identifier: SSRN 4626185
- Released: 2023-11-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 25 (2023-11-08): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-11-08/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 2
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: ML & AI Methods

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