The determinants of top management pay

Omega

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 617-635

  Firth, M ^a   Tam, M ^b   Tang, M ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compensation; Incentives; Management performance; Top management

Indexed keywords

AGENCY THEORY; COMPANY SIZE; COMPENSATION; CORPORATES; HONG-KONG; INCENTIVE; MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; STOCK RETURNS; TOP MANAGEMENT;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 0348229351     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(99)00021-3     Document Type: Article

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