An Introduction to Executive Compensation

An Introduction to Executive Compensation
ISBN-10
0120771268
ISBN-13
9780120771264
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
410
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Academic Press
Author
Steven Balsam

Description

General readers have no idea why people should care about what executives are paid and why they are paid the way they are. That's the reason that The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, and other popular and practitioner publications have regular coverage on them. This book not only proposes a reason - executives need incentives in order to maximize firm value (economists call this agency theory) - it also describes the nature and design of executive compensation practices. Those incentives can take the form of benefits (salary, stock options), or prerquisites (reflecting the status of the executive within the organizational culture.

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