Boards of Directors

Finance Ethics: Critical Issues in Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 565-584

  Dalton, Dan R ^a   Dalton, Catherine M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boards of directors; Crisis environment; Executive committee; Leadership structure; Unity of command

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886225773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118266298.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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