Pension fund manager tournaments and attitudes towards corporate characteristics

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1307-1326

  Cox, Paul ^a   Brammer, Stephen ^b   Millington, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Investment management; Pension funds; Social investing; Tournaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148896667     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2007.02037.x     Document Type: Article

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