The voluntary adoption of internationally recognized accounting standards and firm internal performance evaluation

Accounting Review

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1281-1309

  Wu, Joanna Shuang ^a   Zhang, Ivy Xiying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO turnover; International accounting standards; Layoffs; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549117289     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2009.84.4.1281     Document Type: Article

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