... by studying and explaining the different patterns of compensation structure over CEO tenure between inside CEOs and outside CEOs. Yudan Zheng can be contacted at: yudan.zheng@liu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Chief executives Pay Compensation CEO compensation has long...

... Limited 2010 Corporate finances Chief executives Women Earnings Accounting earnings are perhaps the most widely used measure of firm performance. Given that accounting rules and financial reporting standards provide the executives of a firm with considerable opportunities for earnings...

... mechanisms. Rongbing Huang can be contacted at: rhuang1@kennesaw.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Equity capital Corporate governance Chief executives Boards of Directors Corporate finances There is little research that addresses the relationship between director...

... of ineffective monitoring associated with excessive compensation. Hence, the results support a cronyism hypothesis. Banking Corporate governance Chief executives Regulation Remuneration United States of America Uzun et al. (2004) examine characteristics of the board of directors...

... companies and not only a specific entity. Khaled Abdou can be contacted at: kka1@psu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Insider trading Chief executives Construction industry Residential homes United States of America A New York Times article titled...

... news stories for the CEO turnover in the Wall Street Journal and other major business periodicals. Shane van Dalsem can be contacted at: vandalse.shan@uwlax.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Chief executives Severance Compensation Employee turnover...

...Neophytos Lambertides Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the long‐term abnormal returns of firms that have experienced chief executive officer (CEO) succession. According to Chief Executive magazine, directors rank CEO succession as the second most important issue their firms...

...Mahmoud M. Nourayi; Mahmoud M. Nourayi; Steven M. Mintz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the association between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) tenure, compensation, and firm's performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares the influence firms' performance on CEOs...

.... Originality/value This paper finds the existence of synchronous and lagged relationships between CEO pay and firm performance for a group of quality companies. Chief executives Pay Performance measures Public sector organizations Quality A common view of chief executive officer (CEO...

... to determine to what extent these results can be generalized to periods of different economic prospects. Originality/value This study examines the impact of firms' operational characteristic on Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation. We anticipate that CEO compensations in regulated industries...

... the dual position of chair. Acquisitions and mergers Chief executives Corporate governance Compensation Incentives (psychology) The subject of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation is a topic of considerable interest. Weak governance structures have been implicated as a culprit...

... Compensation Chief executives Acquisitions and mergers Asset protection This study addresses the following research question: do compensation committees shield CEO compensation from the negative effects of restructuring charges and asset impairments that are recognized subsequent to acquisition...

... executives are governed by traditional control or governance mechanisms while in mutual insurance companies, chief executives have almost total discretion and are more likely to act abusively (O Hara, 1981). Various reasons have been provided to explain why companies go public (Dannen, 1984; Fenske, 1985...

... for work where the competition is weakest and coworkers are the most inept.2 One level where the risks of RPE appear to be minimal is top management or Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Despite the foreseeable benefits of RPE, the empirical evidence regarding RPE is mixed. Murphy (1985) evaluates firm...

... compensation contracts are part of a package of behavior controls and are, on average, responsive to firm performance. 1. Introduction The relation between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and corporate performance is still an important issue in financial debate. A CEO who does not own a portion...

.... Sloan, R. 1993. Accounting earnings and top executive compensation. Journal of Accounting and Economics 16 (Jan./April/July): 55-100. Subramanyam, K. R. 1996. The pricing of discretionary accruals. Journal of Accounting and Economics 22: 249-282. Accounting research Performance‐related pay Chief...

... number of common shares outstanding. 9. CHGRSLS : GRWSLSt - GRWSLSt-1 where GRWSLS is the continuously compounded growth in sales and is defined as the natural logarithm of sales in current year less natural logarithm of sales in previous year. Accounting research Performance‐related pay Chief...