Stock price reactions to GLBT nondiscrimination policies

Human Resource Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-216

  Wang, Peng ^a   Schwarz, Joshua L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisexual; Discrimination; Financial performance; Gay; Glbt; Lesbian; Organizational performance; Sexual orientation; Stock market; Stock market performance linear mixed model; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952197519     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20341     Document Type: Article

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