READ ME File For 'Dataset in support of the Southampton doctoral thesis 'The Effect of the Board of Directors' Characteristics on Merger and Acquisition Investments: Evidence from the United Kingdom'' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2494 ReadMe Author: Bador SAmi Albahussain University of Southampton This dataset supports the thesis entitled The Effect of the Board of Directors' Characteristics on Merger and Acquisition Investments: Evidence from the United Kingdom AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: [2023] This dataset contains: The dataset contains an Excel spreadsheet detailing the data collected in support of the thesis. Date of data collection: 2019-2022 Information about geographic location of data collection: Licence:CC-BY Date that the file was created: July, 2023 --------------