Corporate governance and international location decisions of multinational enterprises

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1330-1347

  Dam, Lammertjan ^a,b   Scholtens, Bert ^b   Sterken, Elmer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; Location behaviour; Multinational enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 37148999120     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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