A Behavioral Analysis of Directors' Liability for Negligence
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A Behavioral Analysis of Directors' Liability for Negligence
Directors of large corporations are sometimes compared, with considerable justice, to the supreme party council in a one-party state. Potentates of countries commonly regarded as dictatorial might look with envy on American corporate directors not only for the funds of money of which they dispose, but also for the security of their tenure.' But there are many ways in which directors are unlike ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Duke Law Journal
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0012-7086
DOI: 10.2307/1371832