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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Authors: Holder-Webb, Lori (Author) ; Cohen, Jeffrey (Author) ; Nath, Leda (Author) ; Wood, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2008
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 83, Issue: 3, Pages: 543-563
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Corporate governance
B SEC regulation
B non-financial information
B Disclosure
B governance reporting
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