Disclosure and corporate governance in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-334

  Tsamenyi, Mathew ^a   Enninful Adu, Elsie ^b   Onumah, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Netherlands Development Organization   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Developing countries; Disclosure; Ghana

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847371130     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900710733170     Document Type: Article

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