Is board size an independent corporate governance mechanism?

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Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-356

  Beiner, Stefan ^a,b   Drobetz, D Wolfgang ^b   Schmid, Frank ^b   Zimmermann, Heinz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 4143145194     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0023-5962.2004.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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