A Survey of Corporate Governance
1997/06/01 by Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · 16,308 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Accounting #Business #Business administration #Corporate Finance and Governance #Corporate Governance and Law #Corporate Insolvency and Governance #Corporate governance #Finance #Survey research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1997.tb04820.x
published in The Journal of Finance 52(2), 737-783 (Wiley)
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This article surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems around the world.
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