Accounting choices and director interlocks: A social network approach to the voluntary expensing of stock option grants

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1079-1102

  Kang, Eugene ^a   Tan, Brian R ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Director interlocks; SFAS 123; Social network; Voluntary disclosures

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649089459     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02114.x     Document Type: Article

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