Living in a fool's paradise: the collapse of Barings’ Bank

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 232-238

  Drummond, Helga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; Fraud; Liability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165610     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210420183     Document Type: Article

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