Family ownership, board independence, and R&D investment

Family Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 347-362

  Chen, Hsiang Lan ^a   Hsu, Wen Tsung ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Board independence; Corporate governance; Family ownership; R D investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749142774     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486509341062     Document Type: Article

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