Philosophical and paradoxical issues in corporate governance

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-44

  Letza, Steve ^a   Sun, Xiuping ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

corporate governance; dichotomy; processual approach; representationalism; shareholding; stakeholding; static approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922170129     PISSN: 14779048     EISSN: 1741802X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBGE.2004.004895     Document Type: Article

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