Corporate governance, accounting and finance: A review

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-172

  Brown, Philip ^a,b   Beekes, Wendy ^c   Verhoeven, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting quality; Agency costs; Auditor independence; Board committees; C30; C36; Corporate governance; Directors; Duality; Endogeneity; G30; G34; G38; K22; M48; Ownership structure; Shareholder activism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952095238     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00385.x     Document Type: Review

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