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Corporate Governance: The Crisis, Investors’ Losses and the Decline in Public Trust

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Taylor, B. (2006). Corporate Governance: The Crisis, Investors’ Losses and the Decline in Public Trust. In: Hahn, D., Taylor, B. (eds) Strategische Unternehmungsplanung — Strategische Unternehmungsführung. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30763-X_26

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