Incentive programmes – a corporate governance perspective on Swedish commercial state owned firms
(2006)Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- We would like to learn more about how the restrictive policy against incentive programmes affects the board’s of Swedish state owned commercial firms ability to govern management in an efficient way. We also want to find out if there are different consequences in reference to this that are not directly linked to corporate governance issues. Our empiric observations have been made in order to profoundly explore the subject and examine it through the eyes of professional individuals, all expressing different views and standpoints. We conclude that the most efficient structure is when an active board is complemented by a well structured and individualised incentive programme. However, this thesis conclude that this structure is not possible... (More)
- We would like to learn more about how the restrictive policy against incentive programmes affects the board’s of Swedish state owned commercial firms ability to govern management in an efficient way. We also want to find out if there are different consequences in reference to this that are not directly linked to corporate governance issues. Our empiric observations have been made in order to profoundly explore the subject and examine it through the eyes of professional individuals, all expressing different views and standpoints. We conclude that the most efficient structure is when an active board is complemented by a well structured and individualised incentive programme. However, this thesis conclude that this structure is not possible given the current guidelines and policies employed by the state, which in turn might lead to sub optimizations in the governing. (Less)
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- author
- Zadig, Carl-Sebastian and Wingren, Fredrik
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- State owned firms, incentives, compensation, agency costs, Management of enterprises, Företagsledning, management
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1344561
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-05 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2012-04-02 16:01:12
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abstract = {{We would like to learn more about how the restrictive policy against incentive programmes affects the board’s of Swedish state owned commercial firms ability to govern management in an efficient way. We also want to find out if there are different consequences in reference to this that are not directly linked to corporate governance issues. Our empiric observations have been made in order to profoundly explore the subject and examine it through the eyes of professional individuals, all expressing different views and standpoints. We conclude that the most efficient structure is when an active board is complemented by a well structured and individualised incentive programme. However, this thesis conclude that this structure is not possible given the current guidelines and policies employed by the state, which in turn might lead to sub optimizations in the governing.}},
author = {{Zadig, Carl-Sebastian and Wingren, Fredrik}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Incentive programmes – a corporate governance perspective on Swedish commercial state owned firms}},
year = {{2006}},
}