Private and public relative performance information under different compensation contracts

Accounting Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 327-350

  Tafkov, Ivo D ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Incentives; Performance; Relative performance information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880106161     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-50292     Document Type: Article

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