Board Diversity

Corporate Governance: A Synthesis of Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-242

  Ferreira, Daniel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic characteristic; Economic research; Information source; Mathematical model; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886127607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118258439.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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