The impact of global capital market exposure and stable ownership on investor relations practices and performance of Japanese firms

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 525-540

  Yoshikawa, Toru ^a   Gedajlovic, Eric R ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Investor relations; Japanese firm; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041809683     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020569609552     Document Type: Article

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