Do Board Independence and audit committees motivate disclosure on Different Corporate Governance information categories in the annual reports in developing countries?

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 57, Issue , 2010, Pages 206-225

  Samaha, Khaled ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Auditing; Board independence; Board structure; Control structure; Corporate responsibility; Financial transparency; Information disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649793706     PISSN: 14502887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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