Convergence of Corporate Governance during the Stock Market Bubble: Towards Anglo-American or European Standards?

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Thomsen, Steen ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Convergence; Divergence; Globalization; Ownership concentration; Stock markets; Variety of capitalisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349091311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269761.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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