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Option Compensation and Industry CompetitionNeal StoughtonWU Vienna University of Economics and Business Kit Pong WongUniversity of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance Review of Finance, 2008 EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper Abstract: Compensation policy has become one of the most important ingredients of corporate governance. In this paper we take a new look at the issue, by contrasting the use of options with that of stock. We do this by integrating the repricing or resetting aspect of options with that of industrial structure. We show that industry competition may play an important role in dictating which form of compensation is optimal. When aggressive competition for key professional staff is an issue, the flexibility of options may actually become a disadvantage and therefore pure stock compensation may survive as an equilibrium. Thus compensation trends may be partly explained by trends in the nature of the competitive environment.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39 Keywords: Compensation, options, stock, product markets, competition, employees JEL Classification: G30, D21, D43 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: May 12, 2003 ; Last revised: March 21, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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