Corporate governance in Spain (with an application of the power indices approach)

European Journal of Law and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-173

  Leech, Dennis ^a   Manjón, Miguel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Control; Corporate governance; Ownership; Power indices; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038122368     PISSN: 09291261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013680820398     Document Type: Article

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