Institutions and voluntary compliance: The disclosure of individual executive pay in Germany

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-374

  Chizema, Amon ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate Governance Codes; Institutional theory; Management board

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749138850     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2008.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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