Corporate governance: Quo vadis?

Corporate Governance

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 613-626

  Mostovicz, E Isaac ^a   Kakabadse, Nada K ^a   Kakabadse, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Governance; Motivation; Principal agent model; Psychology; Shareholder view; Stakeholder analysis; Stakeholder view

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055034809     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720701111177019     Document Type: Review

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