State and local pension fund governance and the process of contracting for investment services: The scope of diversity and the problem of embeddedness

Territory, Politics, Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 150-172

  Clark, Gordon L ^a,b   Monk, Ashby H B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract; Governance; Requests for proposals; State and local pension plans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971491655     PISSN: 21622671     EISSN: 2162268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2014.893836     Document Type: Article

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