Firm performance and compensation structure: Performance elasticities of average employee compensation

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-352

  Rayton, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average employee compensation; Compensation structure; Firm performance; Performance elasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037409145     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1199(02)00017-2     Document Type: Article

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