Women on the board of directors and corporate tax aggressiveness in Australia An empirical analysis

Accounting Research Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 313-331

  Richardson, Grant ^a   Taylor, Grantley ^b   Lanis, Roman ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Corporate governance; Corporate tax avoidance; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987740813     PISSN: 10309616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ARJ-09-2014-0079     Document Type: Article

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