Principal-principal conflict in the governance of the Chinese public corporation

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-38

  Su, Yiyi ^a   Xu, Dean ^b   Phan, Phillip H ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Board of directors; China; Ownership concentration; Principal principal conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849116957     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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