The sensitivity of compensation to social capital: Family CEOs vs. nonfamily CEOs in the family business groups

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-374

  Young, Chaur Shiuh ^a   Tsai, Liu Ching ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CEO compensation; Family business groups; Intellectual capital; Networks; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 39649110318     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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