Institutional ownership and the selection of industry specialist auditors

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-48

  Velury, Uma ^a   Reisch, John T ^b   O'Reilly, Dennis M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Corporate governance; Industry specialization; Institutional ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843070961     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024855605207     Document Type: Article

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