Determinants of share-based compensation plans in central and Eastern European public companies: An institutional analysis

Journal for East European Management Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 338-357

  Festing, Marion ^a   Sahakiants, Ihar ^b  

^a International human strategic human resource management   (Denmark)

^b International and comparative compensation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central and eastern europe; CEO compensation; Comparative HRM; Institutional environment; Ownership control structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355182927     PISSN: 09496181     EISSN: 18620019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2011-4-338     Document Type: Article

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