The relationship between South Korean chaebols and fraud

Management Research Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-268

  Albrecht, Chad ^a   Skousen, Christopher J ^a   Turnbull, Chad ^b   Zhang, Yingying ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bribery; Conglomerates; Corruption; Financial reporting; Fraud; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993093627     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409171011030408     Document Type: Article

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