Investigating the development of the internal and external service tasks of non-executive directors: The case of the Netherlands (1997-2005)

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1119-1129

  Bezemer, Pieter Jan ^a   Maassen, Gregory F ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frans A J ^a   Volberda, Henk W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate governance codes; Non executive directors; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249051930     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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