Does Employee Ownership Benefit Value Creation? The Case of France (2001-2005)

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-340

  Poulain Rehm, Thierry ^a   Lepers, Xavier ^a  

^a University of Montesquieu Bordeaux IV   (France)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Employee ownership; Shareholders; Stakeholders; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872651689     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1255-0     Document Type: Article

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