The science of corporate governance

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 261-277

  Turnbull, Shann ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bytes; Compound board; Control; Cybernetics; Distributed decisions; Firm architecture; Governance; Information; Requisite variety; Supplementation; Transaction Byte Analysis; Unitary boards

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036805110     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8683.00291     Document Type: Review

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