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This article examines the effects of attributing stock-options to CEOs on the use of tools and practices which allow knowledge and skills to be managed. Knowledge and skills are scrutinized at the manager’s level and at the collaborator’s level and, more broadly, at the organizational and inter-organizational level. The study’s conceptual framework is based on agency theory. Using a rich methodological approach (questionnaire, interviews with professionals), a sample of fifty-six CEOs of Paris stock exchange-quoted firms was built. The empirical findings suggest that CEOs holding stock options are involved in the management of knowledge in their organizations. That is, they organize more meetings between employees of different services, transfer people between services more frequently, and deploy groupware tools (horizontal management) more actively. Beyond testing hypotheses, light is shed on other determinants related to the profile of the CEOs and the nature of the shareholding.