Who Should Control a Corporation? Toward a Contingency Stakeholder Model for Allocating Ownership Rights

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-274

  Zattoni, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

corporate governance; ownership rights; shareholder theory; stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942303240     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0864-3     Document Type: Article

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