Monitoring Accounting Changes: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-73

  De Bos, Auke ^a   Donker, Han ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accounting changes; Agency; Board of directors; Compensation; Corporate governance; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142290707     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2004.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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