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Accounting, Corporate Governance & Business Ethics

Revisiting the relationship between board structure and bank performance in Ethiopian commercial banks

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Article: 2240554 | Received 19 Jun 2023, Accepted 20 Jul 2023, Published online: 25 Jul 2023

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