Opening up the black box: A UK case study of top managers' attitudes to their performance related pay

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 708-720

  Morris, J ^a   Fenton O'Creevy, Mark ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Executive renumeration; Financial services; PRP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002224480     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585199600000151     Document Type: Article

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