Setting the stage: Introduction to the Special Issue on the “Corporate Meltdown”

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-19

  Conrad, Charles ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate governance; corruption; Enron; ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990366424     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318903253418     Document Type: Article

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