Australian chief executive officer remuneration: Pay and performance

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 481-497

  Merhebi, Rachel ^a   Pattenden, Kerry ^a   Swan, Peter L ^b   Zhou, Xianming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Australia; Executive compensation; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747491527     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2006.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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