Networks, interlocking directors and strategy: Toward a theoretical framework

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-160

  Heracleous, Loizos ^a   Murray, John ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Interlocking directors; Network; Performance; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347337070     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010655621305     Document Type: Article

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