The impact of corporate governance practices on R&D efforts: A look at shareholders' rights, cross-listing, and control pyramid

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1475-1513

  Lhuillery, Stephane ^a,b  

^a ICN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUMAN RIGHTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

FRANCE;

EID: 80053205120     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr022     Document Type: Article

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