Statistics as fetishaes: The case of financial performance measures and executive compensation

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-490

  Carlon, Donna M ^a   Downs, Alexis A ^b   Wert Gray, Stacia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnostatistics; Executive compensation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748708057     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106291056     Document Type: Article

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