Assessing board leadership

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 654-666

  Leblanc, Richard ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Chair of the board; Corporate governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944563359     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2005.00457.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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