Who controls US?

European Financial Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-363

  Gadhoum, Yoser ^a   Lang, Larry H P ^b   Young, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; G32; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549113058     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2005.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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