Nascent stages of corporate governance in an emerging market: Regulatory change, shareholder activism and Samsung electronics

Corporate Governance

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 94-105

  Jang, Hasung ^a   Kim, Joongi ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chaebol; Emerging market; Korea; Legal reform; Shareholder activism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036555111     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8683.00273     Document Type: Article

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