Investigating the relationship between board characteristics and board information

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 576-584

  Rutherford, Matthew A ^a   Buchholtz, Ann K ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Board demography; Board information; Corporate governance; Information asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547338541     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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