Corporate governance failures: To what extent is parmalat a particularly Italian case?

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 478-488

  Melis, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accounting fraud; Audit committee; Blockholder; Case study; Code of best practice; Corporate governance; Europe; External auditor; Italy; Parmalat

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144452578     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2004.00443.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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