Corporate Governance and Investment

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-289

  Gugler, Klaus ^a  

^a BWZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cash Constraints; Corporate Governance; Managerial Discretion; Rates of Return

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242678612     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357151032000126238     Document Type: Review

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