Corporate governance and stakeholder opportunism

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1345-1358

  Werder, Axel V ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Opportunism; Stakeholder theory; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255195274     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0599     Document Type: Article

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