How should small shareholders have a voice? Lessons from Gunns Ltd extraordinary general meeting

Corporate Ownership and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 1 B CONT. 1, 2009, Pages 160-167

  Hanson, Dallas ^a   Wickham, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

General meeting; Governance; Pressure group; Stakeholder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896265603     PISSN: 17279232     EISSN: 18103057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22495/cocv7i1c1p1     Document Type: Article

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