Do institutional shareholder services (ISS) corporate governance ratings reflect a company's operating performance?

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1135-1148

  Epps, Ruth W ^a   Cereola, Sandra J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Firm operating performance; Governance rating; Return on assets; Return on equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449104096     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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