Pay for Performance and Corporate Governance Reform

Industrial Relations

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 670-703

  Doucouliagos, Hristos ^a   Haman, Janto ^b   Stanley, T D ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REFORM PROCESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862752595     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2012.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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