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Nitin Aggarwal, Qizhi Dai, Eric A. Walden, The More, the Merrier? How the Number of Partners in a Standard-Setting Initiative Affects Shareholder's Risk and Return, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 445-462
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