Top management team characteristics, R&D investment and capital structure in the IT industry

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-333

  Chen, Hsiang Lan ^a   Hsu, Wen Tsung ^b   Huang, Yen Sheng ^c  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capital structure; R D investment; Top management team characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956692464     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9166-2     Document Type: Article

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