Outside Directors, Politics, and Firm Performance
Preprint
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
A substantial number of outside directors have experience in non-business arenas, especially in government and in the private practice of law. Moreover, for mosKeywords
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