Intellectual capital, monitoring, and risk: What predicts the adoption of employee stock options?

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 734-752

  Kroumova, Maya K ^a   Sesil, James C ^b  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33748691806     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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