Corruption, Fraud, and Corporate Governance: A Report on Enron

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Windolf, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Corruption; Rules; Unintended consequences; Weber

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749047238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269761.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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