The ABI guidelines for share-based incentive schemes: Setting the hurdle too high?

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-205

  Main, Brian G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33845743911     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2006.9730021     Document Type: Article

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