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Why New Ventures Grant Employee-Stock-Options

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  • Elli Kraizberg

    (Bar-Ilan University)

  • Vassilios N. Gargalas

    (Western Connecticut State University)

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As of 1998, nine percent of the shares of all firms in the US, primarily young and small ones, have been owned, essentially by about 17 million employees. The recent trend of new ventures to grant company-wide stock options plans is an alignment of the interests of management, shareholders, and non-managerial employees. This paper empirically explores the hypothesis that company-wide stock options plans primarily serve the interests of the firm?s management. This is true, whether or not, management owns a stake in the firm?s equity, though the degree of his or her motivation varies depending on the size of his/her stake in the firm?s equity. The paper unambiguously disproves the view that grants of employee stock options are meant to ease cash flow strains for small young firms.

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  • Elli Kraizberg & Vassilios N. Gargalas, 2002. "Why New Ventures Grant Employee-Stock-Options," Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management, vol. 7(2), pages 83-103, Summer.
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    Keywords

    Venture Capital; New Venture; Startup; Stock Options; Compensation;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
    • M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
    • J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods

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