Pioneering modern corporate governance: A view from London in 1900

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 642-686

  Hannah, Leslie ^a  

^a 620 Maison Suger ^*  (France)

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DOI: 10.1093/es/khm069     Document Type: Article

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