Executive compensation, earnings management and shareholder litigation

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Jones, Robert A ^a   Wu, Yan Wendy ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensation; Fraud; Shareholder lawsuits; Stock options

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953542584     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-009-0150-y     Document Type: Article

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