The relevance of non-financial performance measures for CEO compensation: Evidence from the airline industry

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 443-464

  Davila, Antonio ^a   Venkatachalam, Mohan ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline industry; CEO compensation; Non financial performance measures; Passenger load factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944371020     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-004-7792-8     Document Type: Article

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