The agency problems embedded in firm's equity investment

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 151-166

  Yeh, Yin Hua ^a,b   Lee, Tsun Siou ^c   Shu, Pei Gi ^a,b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FJU

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate equity investment; Corporate governance; Ethical choices; Negative entrenchment ypothesis; Positive incentive hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449127537     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9387-3     Document Type: Article

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