Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature
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- 1 January 2000
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Abstract
This paper surveys the economic literature on boards of directors. Although a legal requirement for many organizations, boards are also an endogenously determiKeywords
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