Private firms and corporate governance: An integrated economic and management perspective

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-241

  Uhlaner, Lorraine ^a,d   Wright, Mike ^a,b,d   Huse, Morten ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boards; Corporate governance; Excutive renumeration; Financial reporting; Firm life cycle; Ownership; Privately held firms; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548068883     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9032-z     Document Type: Article

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