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Business Administration, Management, and Operations

Claremont Colleges

2016

Executive Compensation Regulation Information Technology Industry

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The Effect Of Increased Regulation On Option Use Within The Information Technology Industry, Ahmed H. Eltamami Jan 2016

The Effect Of Increased Regulation On Option Use Within The Information Technology Industry, Ahmed H. Eltamami

CMC Senior Theses

Exorbitant executive compensation packages have drawn large criticism from the public eye and with the recent financial crisis and the previous tech bubble opinion on executive incentives has forced government institutions to respond. Over the past two decades the SEC and FASB have aimed to respond to the public and with three large regulation changes in the 2000s, pay for performance compensation has gone through many changes. In this study I build on previous work in an attempt to answer whether or not executives within the Information Technology industry have seen a larger decline in option compensation when compared to …