Building a corporate governance index from the perspectives of ownership and leadership for firms in Taiwan

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-261

  Chen, Anlin ^a   Kao, Lanfeng ^b   Tsao, Meilan ^c   Wu, Chinshun ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Equity return; Leadership structure; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947214464     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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