Sharing decision-making and group incentives: The impact on performance

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 587-607

  Sesil, James C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Shared control and return rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749832916     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X06068998     Document Type: Article

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