Commitment or entrenchment?: Controlling shareholders and board composition

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1857-1885

  Yeh, Yin Hua ^a   Woidtke, Tracie ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Board composition; Control; Corporate governance; G30; G32; L22; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549107297     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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