Corporate governance in Bangladesh: Link between ownership and financial performance

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1453-1468

  Al Farooque, Omar ^a   Van Zijl, Tony ^b   Dunstan, Keitha ^b   Karim, Akm Waresul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Board ownership; Emerging markets; Endogeneity; Exogeneity; Financial performance; Mono directional non monotonic causal relation; Reverse way causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149007401     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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