Compensation committees in the United States

Handbook on International Corporate Governance: Country Analyses

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 151-169

  Conyon, Martin J ^a   Kuchinskas, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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