A Survey of Governance Disclosures Among U.S. Firms
Recent years have featured a spate of regulatory action pertaining to the development and/or disclosure of corporate governance structures in response to financial scandals resulting in part from governance failures. During the same period, corporate governance activists and institutional investors...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2008
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 83, Issue: 3, Pages: 543-563 |
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B Corporate governance B SEC regulation B non-financial information B Disclosure B governance reporting |
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