CEOs’ International Work Experience and Compensation

Overpaid CEOs and Underpaid Managers: Fairness and Executive Compensation

In this study we propose that norms of fairness are salient to top decision makers and show that overor underpayment of the CEO cascades down to lower organizational levels. Moreover, it appears that CEOs use their own power not only to increase their own salaries, but also those of their subordinates. One implication of such a process may be that the overpayment of a top executive has higher c...

Bank Ceos , inside Debt Compensation , and the Global Financial Crisis

Bank executives’ compensation has been widely identified as a culprit in the Global Financial Crisis, and reform of banker pay is high on the public policy agenda. While Congress targeted its reforms primarily at bankers’ equity-based pay incentives, empirical research fails to show any correlation between bank CEO equity incentives and bank performance in the Financial Crisis. We offer an alte...

Women, work and compensation

How do CEOs matter? The moderating effects of CEO compensation and tenure on equity ownership in international joint ventures

a College of Business Administration, University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539, United States b School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States c Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 298530, Fort Worth, TX 76129, United States d Luiss Guido Carli University, Department ...

International Compensation Costs

Elizabeth Zamora and Jacob Kirchmer Lower wages in foreign markets and the rise in outsourcing by U.S. companies have become important topics in the debate on U.S. competitiveness. Though discussion of these issues tends to evoke images of the quickly growing information technology sector and of other service sectors especially vulnerable to outsourcing, debate has also focused on the impact of...