Overview of latin american corporate governance mechanisms;Prácticas de gobierno corporativo en américa latina

Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion

Volumn , Issue 43, 2009, Pages 26-40

  Castro, Marisela Santiago ^a   Brown, Cynthia J ^b   Báez Díaz, Aníbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Universidad de Texas Pan American Edinburg   (United States)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Corporate governance; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956994966     PISSN: 10128255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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