Executive Compensation: Unjust or Just Right?

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Boatright, John R ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Chief executive officer; Executive compensation; Fiduciary duty; Fraud; Free market capitalist system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923275260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195307955.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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