The independent director on the board of company directors

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 545-566

  McCabe, Margaret ^a   Nowak, Margaret ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Boards of directors; Corporate governance; Non executive directors

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949122951     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900810882101     Document Type: Article

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