Inside agency: The rise and fall of Nortel

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-187

  Fogarty, Timothy ^b   Magnan, Michel L ^a   Markarian, Garen ^c   Bohdjalian, Serge ^a  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Executive compensation; Financial misstatement; Income smoothing; Stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349198916     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9680-9     Document Type: Article

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