What drives executive stock option backdating?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 1042-1070

  Veld, Chris ^a   Wu, Betty H T ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backdating; Corporate governance; Executive compensation; Stock option grants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907933961     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbfa.12077     Document Type: Article

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