Company mission statements and financial performance

Corporate Ownership and Control

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 28-35

  Atrill, Peter ^a   Omran, Mohammed ^b   Pointon, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Corporate mission; Financial performance; Shareholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249692308     PISSN: 17279232     EISSN: 18103057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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