Governance prescriptions under trial: On the interplay between the logics of resistance and compliance in audit committees

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-272

  Tremblay, Marie Soleil ^a   Gendron, Yves ^b  

^a ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Corporate governance; Logic of compliance; Logic of resistance; Regulation; Trials of strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952486216     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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