The combined effect of wages and firm profit on employee effort

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-188

  Hannan, R Lynn ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental markets; Implicit contracts; Reciprocity; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844277033     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.1.167     Document Type: Review

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