'Helping the family': The mediating role of outside directors in ethnic Chinese family firms

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-314

  Ng, Wilson ^a   Roberts, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Board studies; Corporate governance; Family firms family controlled firms; Non executive directors; Overseas Chinese families

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847341580     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707075885     Document Type: Article

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