Good Practice in Corporate Governance: Transparency, Trust, and Performance in the Microfinance Industry

Business and Society

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 659-676

  Augustine, Darline ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

good practice in corporate governance; microfinance firms; performance; transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868667851     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650312448623     Document Type: Article

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