Behind broad corporate governance aggregates: A first look at single provisions of the German corporate governance code

Corporate Ownership and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 3 D CONT. 3, 2009, Pages 388-399

  Bassen, Alexander ^a   Prigge, Stefan ^b   Zöllner, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Corporate performance; German corporate governance code

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891848736     PISSN: 17279232     EISSN: 18103057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22495/cocv6i3c3p4     Document Type: Article

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