Boards of directors, market discipline and firm performance

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1921-1960

  Bozec, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Firm performance; Governance; Product market competition; State Owned Enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244450441     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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