An introduction to executive compensation /
General readers have no idea why people should care about what executives are paid and why they are paid the way they are. That's the reason that The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, and other popular and practitioner publications have regular coverage on them. This book not only proposes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
San Diego :
Academic Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | General readers have no idea why people should care about what executives are paid and why they are paid the way they are. That's the reason that The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, and other popular and practitioner publications have regular coverage on them. This book not only proposes a reason--executives need incentives in order to maximize firm value (economists call this "agency theory")--it also describes the nature and design of executive compensation practices. Those incentives can take the form of benefits (salary, stock options), perquisites (reflecting the status of the execu |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 387 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780080490427 0080490425 9786611004927 6611004920 |