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Corporate Governance Research: An Empirical Approach

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This chapter contains a detailed discussion of the methodology that was used to develop a series of case studies, detailing how five large public companies have responded to situations of financial distress and insolvency. The chapter includes the justification of the research method, the sources of information that were used to compile each case and the limitations of the data. The cases were developed using a mixture of information compiled from a wide range of publicly accessible sources. The chapter also discusses the rationale for the choice of specific cases.

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Parkinson, M.M. (2018). Corporate Governance Research: An Empirical Approach. In: Corporate Governance in Transition. Palgrave Studies in Governance, Leadership and Responsibility. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77110-6_6

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