The ombudsman: Are top executives paid enough? An evidence-based review

Interfaces

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 580-589

  Jacquart, Philippe ^a   Armstrong, J Scott ^b,c  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bonus; Cooperatives; Corporate governance; Democracy; Employee selection; Executive compensation; Incentives; Index methods; Judgmental bootstrapping; Mondragon; Motivation; Pay; Performance; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892621522     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2013.0705     Document Type: Review

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