The effects of incentive subjectivity and strategy communication on knowledge-sharing and extra-role behaviours

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 119-130

  Cheng, Mandy M ^a   Coyte, Rodney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extra role behaviours; Incentive scheme; Knowledge sharing; Performance management systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899628884     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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