Tournament compensation systems, employee heterogeneity, and firm performance

Human Resource Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-398

  Backes Gellner, Uschi ^a   Pull, Kerstin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compensation and benefits; Pay for performance; Performance management; Reward systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878200475     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21535     Document Type: Article

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