The legal structure of the firm

Accounting, Economics and Law

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Robé, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a SCIENCES PO   (France)

Author keywords

Assets partitioning; Cluster of contracts; Corporation; Firm; Property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858704878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21522820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/2152-2820.1001     Document Type: Review

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