Employee Entitlements and Secured Creditors: Assessing the Effects of the Maximum Priority Proposal

Australian Journal of Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-71

  Anderson, Jeannette ^a   Davis, Kevin ^b  

^a Group Risk Infrastructure ANZ Bank   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CORPORATE FAILURE; CREDIT RISK; EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349277180     PISSN: 03128962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/031289620903400104     Document Type: Article

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