Top management incentive compensation and knowledge sharing in multinational corporations

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1301-1323

  Fey, Carl F ^a   Furu, Patrick ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Knowledge transfer; MNCs

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

COMPENSATION MECHANISMS; FINLAND; IN LINES; INCENTIVE COMPENSATIONS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; MNCS; MULTI-NATIONALS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES; SHARING KNOWLEDGES; TOP MANAGEMENTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56549106985     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.712     Document Type: Article

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