Risk and Firms' Costs

Strategic Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-382

  Miller, Kent D ^a   Chen, Wei Ru ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

bankruptcy risk; contract theory; risk; risk management; stakeholder view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734214     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14761270030014001     Document Type: Article

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