Benefits offer no advantage on firm productivity?: An empirical examination

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 393-405

  Tsai, Kuen Hung ^a   Wang, Jiann Chyuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benefits; Employees; Productivity rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 21544478042     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510599743     Document Type: Article

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