Creating incentives for innovation? the relationship between pay dispersion in R&D groups and firm innovation performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1502-1511

  Yanadori, Yoshio ^a   Cui, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

high technology firms; human capital management; innovation; pay dispersion; R D employees

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; HIGH TECHNOLOGY FIRMS; HUMAN CAPITALS; INCENTIVE MECHANISM; INCENTIVE SYSTEMS; LEVEL COMPENSATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES; PAY DISPERSIONS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84886588957     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2071     Document Type: Article

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