Securities fraud, 1996-2001 : incentive pay, governance, and class action lawsuits / Ke Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Ke, 1972 November 6-

Series:

Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Securities fraud.

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wang seeks to explain why one company committed securities fraud only during certain years and why some companies had a higher propensity to commit securities fraud. He finds evidence linking executive incentive compensation to securities fraud. Some corporate governance measures may also play a role in fraud control. Findings vary, however, depending on the stages of judicial proceedings at which securities fraud class action cases are examined. Researchers and practitioners from fields other than criminal justice, such as law and economics, management, and accounting, may find this work usef

Contents:

Defining securities fraud

Theorizing securities fraud: a complex and inadequately researched phenomenon

Explaining securities fraud: an integrated conceptual model

Finding the deviant corporations: research methods and data

Incentive compensation: a source of securities fraud

Corporate governance : a fraud-preventing process depending on context

Controlling securities fraud : policy implications.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-156) and index.

ISBN:

9781593325640

1593325649

OCLC:

732955769