Board members' contribution to strategic decision-making in small firms

Journal of Management and Governance

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 383-404

  Pugliese, Amedeo ^a   Wenstøp, Pingying Zhang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Board strategic involvement; Corporate governance; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949009259     PISSN: 13853457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10997-007-9036-3     Document Type: Article

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