Does educational background affect CEO compensation and firm performance?

Journal of Applied Business Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-40

  Jalbert, Terrance ^a   Furumo, Kimberly ^a   Jalbert, Mercedes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b The Institute for Business and Finance Research   (United States)

Author keywords

CEO Compensation; CEO Education; CEO Gender; Firm Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251496992     PISSN: 08927626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19030/jabr.v27i1.907     Document Type: Article

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