Post-acquisition structuring of ceo pay packages: Incentives and punishments

Strategic Organization

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-221

  Spraggon, Martin ^a   Bodolica, Virginia ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

(dis)incentives; acquisitions; agency problem; board of directors; CEO pay structuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051812212     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127011415246     Document Type: Article

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