Governance and the split of options between executive and nonexecutive employees

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-138

  Landsman, Wayne ^a   Lang, Mark ^a   Yeh, Shu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broad based options; Employee stock options; Executive stock options; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247603908     PISSN: 0148558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0148558X0702200203     Document Type: Article

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