Corporate elite networks and governance changes in the 1980s

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-37

  Davis, Gerald F ^a   Greve, Henrich R ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; GOVERNANCE CHANGE;

EID: 0031426486     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/231170     Document Type: Article

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