The black box of board process: Gaining access to a difficult subject

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 843-851

  Leblanc, Richard ^a   Schwartz, Mark S ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Board dynamics; Board observation; Boards of directors; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748850784     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00617.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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