Determinants of Voluntary Audit Committee Formation in a Two-Tier Board System of a Post-transitional Economy - The Case of Slovenia

Accounting in Europe

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-256

  Groff, Maja Zaman ^a   Valentinčič, Aljoša ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Faculty of Economics   (Slovenia)

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EID: 84857210884     PISSN: 17449480     EISSN: 17449499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17449480.2011.621674     Document Type: Article

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