Is there a dark side to incentive compensation?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 467-488

  Denis, David J ^a   Hanouna, Paul ^a   Sarin, Atulya ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Fraud; Incentives; Options

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645883520     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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