'A doe in the city': Women shareholders in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain

Accounting, Business and Financial History

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-291

  Freeman, Mark ^a   Pearson, Robin ^a   Taylor, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Joint stock companies; Shareholders; Women and finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745837460     PISSN: 09585206     EISSN: 14664275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585200600756282     Document Type: Review

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