The Risk of Fraud in Family Firms: Assessments of External Auditors
There is a dearth of business ethics research on family firms, despite the importance of such firms to the US economy (Vazquez in J Bus Ethics, 2016. doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3171-1). We answer Vazquez’s (2016) call to examine the intersection of family-firm research and business ethics, by investigat...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2019
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 157, Issue: 1, Pages: 261-278 |
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Corporate governance
B external auditors B Family firms B Client acceptance B fraud risk |
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