Executive target bonuses and what they imply about performance standards

Accounting Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 793-819

  Indjejikian, Raffi J ^a   Nanda, Dhananjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonus plans; Incentive compensation; Performance standards; Targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036807859     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2002.77.4.793     Document Type: Article

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