Researchers Defend Big Money CEO Severance Pay
A surefire way for a company to garner bad press and anger investors is to reward an outgoing, terminated CEO with a hefty payout despite poor firm performance. A recent study published in The Accounting Review, a publication of the American Accounting Association, puts a contrarian spin on those controversies ...
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