Does the team leverage the board's decisions?

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 744-761

  Castro, Carmen Barroso ^a,b   De La Concha, Marta Dominguez ^a   Gravel, Julio Vecino ^a   Periñan, M Mar Villegas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Department of Business Management and Marketing ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Board Involvement; Corporate Governance; Strategic Change; TMT Board Relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149119758     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2009.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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