The pursuit of maximum shareholder value: Vampire or Viagra?

Accounting Forum

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-331

  McSweeney, Brendan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Economic value management; EVA; Finance shareholder value; Stock markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748937967     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2007.09.001     Document Type: Editorial

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