TITLE

Does it really pay to pay for performance?

AUTHOR(S)

Budman, Matthew

PUB. DATE

March 1997

SOURCE

Across the Board;Mar1997, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p16

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses the validity in the United States of dangling financial incentives in order for the chief executive officer (CEO) to perform well. Determination of how good a job a CEO can do; Performance of a CEO without incentives; CEO motivation; Scarcity of evidence linking CEO stockholdings to shareholder returns. INSET: From the diamond to the corner office, by M.B..

ACCESSION #

9703091828

Tags: CHIEF executive officers;  WAGES

 

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