Employee stock ownership, involvement, and productivity: An interaction-based approach

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-29

  Pendleton, Andrew ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee involvement; Productivity; Stock ownership plans

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957559970     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391006400101     Document Type: Article

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