Audit quality and owner-manager agency costs: Evidence from China

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-62

  Dang, Li ^a   Fang, Qiaoling ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Audit quality; China; Emerging market

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649795871     PISSN: 17510252     EISSN: 17510260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2011.037256     Document Type: Article

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