Indirect industry-and subindustry-level managerial discretion measurement

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 682-694

  Keegan, Jack ^a   Kabanoff, Boris ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional heterogeneity; Debt discipline; Discretionary accounts adjustments; Exploratory factor analysis confidence intervals; Industry level discretion; Lexical measures; Positively adjusted accounts

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649129092     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428107308897     Document Type: Article

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