Reference compensation: A transfer of reference price theory to human resource management

Review of Managerial Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-129

  Siems, Florian U ^a   Goelzner, Herbert ^b   Moosmayer, Dirk C ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Compensation satisfaction; Exploratory study; Reference compensation; Reference price

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857499984     PISSN: 18636683     EISSN: 18636691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11846-010-0055-0     Document Type: Article

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