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Compensating Outside Directors with Stock: The Impact on Non-Primary Stakeholders

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  • Yuval Deutsch
  • Mike Valente

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Two obvious trends in corporate governance include broadening board accountability beyond shareholders’ interests and paying outside directors with equity compensation (stock and stock options). By integrating common agency and instrumental stakeholder theories, we examine the effect of stock compensation on secondary stakeholders and a firm’s participation in social issues, two areas where interests are less aligned with shareholder value. Consistent with our predictions, we found that while stock compensation may be an effective way to align directors’ goals to those of shareholders, it has adverse effects on important non-shareholder constituencies in the company’s operating environment. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

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  • Yuval Deutsch & Mike Valente, 2013. "Compensating Outside Directors with Stock: The Impact on Non-Primary Stakeholders," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 116(1), pages 67-85, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:116:y:2013:i:1:p:67-85
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1447-7
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