CEO gender, executive compensation and firm performance in Chinese-listed enterprises

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1136-1159

  Lam, Kevin C K ^a   McGuinness, Paul B ^a   Vieito, João Paulo ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE VIANA DO CASTELO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CEO; China; Executive compensation; Gender; State owned enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866913502     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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