An empirical test of the effect of board size on firm efficiency

Economics Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 259-264

  Huther, Jeff ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Corporate governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031286465     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00035-9     Document Type: Article

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