Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 361-397

  Krafft, Jackie ^a   Qu, Yiping ^a   Quatraroy, Francesco ^a   Ravixz, Jacques Laurent ^a  

^a GREDEG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CONVERGENCE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATABASE;

EID: 84896464570     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtt007     Document Type: Article

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