Compensation committees and CEO pay

Handbook on International Corporate Governance: Country Analyses, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 297-316

  Conyon, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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