...Linda H. Chen; Leslie Eldenburg; Theodore H. Goodman Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how two types of drivers, namely, executive compensation and market competition, can affect hospital quality in the USA. Recently, patients, insurers and regulators have increasingly focused...

...Stephen Abrokwah; Justin Hanig; Marc Schaffer Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of executive compensation on firm risk-taking behavior, measured by the volatility of stock price returns. Specifically, this analysis explores three hypotheses. First, the impact of short-term and long...

...Suman Basuroy; Kimberly C. Gleason; Yezen H. Kannan Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine whether the design of chief executive officer (CEO) compensation generates incentives to engage in managerial behavior that enhances customer satisfaction and whether these incentives, in turn...

...Fang Sun; Xiangjing Wei; Xue Huang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and firm performance proxied by efficiency estimated from data envelopment analysis (DEA) of the US property‐liability (P&L) insurance industry...

... sample over the period 1997‐2005, this study performs cross‐sectional linear regressions of three‐day litigation announcement cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) on CEO option grants, cash compensation, corporate governance and control variables. CARs are calculated over the three‐day (−1,1) interval...

...Shahbaz Sheikh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine if the structure and design of CEO compensation has any effect on firm innovation. It further investigates the effectiveness of each component of portfolio of compensation incentives in encouraging innovation. Design/methodology...

... on the compensation committee influence CEO compensation. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigate how outside CEO directors on the compensation committee impact the level and pay‐for‐performance sensitivity of CEO compensation. In addition, the relation between excess CEO compensation (attributable...

... and other control variables. Findings Market valuation has a significant influence on corporate acquisition decisions, particularly for those firms whose compensation packages include less managerial equity ownership, more executive stock options and no long‐term incentive plans, and in those firms...

... questions to ask, filling gaps in the existing literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Compensation Stock options Employees Incentive schemes Stock options have become an increasingly important element in employee compensation packages. The most cited explanation...

... is used to test whether the level of performance graph disclosure decreases with lower relative performance and higher insider director membership on the compensation committee of the board. Also, Z and t‐statistics test whether bias in the selected peer group benchmark is related...