Corporate governance and corporate failure: A survival analysis

Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 4-12

  Parker, Susan ^a   Peters, Gary F ^b   Turetsky, Howard F ^c  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Corporate governance; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986134510     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700210430298     Document Type: Article

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