Does CEO duality really affect corporate performance?

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1203-1214

  Elsayed, Khaled ^a  

^a Main Campus   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Board size; CEO duality; Corporate governance; Corporate performance; Institutional ownership; Managerial shareholding; Stewardship theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149007403     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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