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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi, Ruth O. Sagay, Reon Matemane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing managerial power theory: A meta-analytic approach to understanding the determinants of CEO compensation [PDF]

, 2012
Although studies about the determinants of CEO compensation are ubiquitous, the balance of evidence for one of the more controversial theoretical approaches, managerial power theory, remains inconclusive.
Aguinis H., Attaway M. C., Bahadir S. C., Baker G. P., Balkin D. B., Barkema H. G., Bebchuk L. A., Bebchuk L. A., Bebchuk L. A., Bebchuk L. A., Berle A. A., Berrone P., Blau P. M., Boyd B. K., Carney M., Carpenter M. A., Cheung M. W. L., Combs J. G., Conyon M. J., Conyon M. J., Conyon M. J., Conyon M. J., Core J. E., Dalton D. R., David P., Diprete T. A., Doucouliagos H., Eisenberg T., Emerson R. M., Fama E. F., Finkelstein S., Finkelstein S., Finkelstein S., Finkelstein S., Finkelstein S., Fisher R. A., Geyskens I., Greene W. H., Gregg P., Hall B. J., Hambrick D. C., Harris D., Hartzell J. C., Hedges L. V., Heugens P. P. M. A. R., Heugens P. P. M. A. R., Hill C. W. L., Hirschman A., Jensen M. C., Kaplan S. N., Khan R., Lambert R. A., Lipsey M. W., Macey J. R., Main B. G. M., Mehran H., Miller C. C., Miller J. S., Murphy K. J., Murphy K. J., Murphy K. J., Nourayi M. M., O’Reilly C. A., Pablo A. L., Pearce J. A., Pfeffer J., Pfeffer J., Raudenbush S. W., Rhoades D. L., Rosenthal R., Sanders G., Shleifer A., Shleifer A., Smith M. P., Stanley T. D., Stanley T. D., Sánchez-Ballesta J. P., Thomsen S., Tosi H., Ungson G. R., Useem M., van Essen M., Westphal J. D., Westphal J. D., Wiseman R. M., Yermack D.   +85 more
core   +4 more sources

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez, José Manuel Santos‐Jaén, María Estefanía Sánchez Pacheco, Fernando José Zambrano Farías   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is U.S. CEO Equity and Cash Compensation Aligned with Agency Theory to Maximize Shareholder Returns?

International Journal of Financial Studies
Recent international studies on CEO pay in Europe, Japan, and South Korea reveal significant differences from the U.S. in the use and effectiveness of equity-based CEO compensation, raising questions about the ability of conventional contracts based on ...
Gurupdesh Pandher, David Koslowsky, Yosef Bonaparte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pay Me Later: Inside Debt and Its Role in Managerial Compensation [PDF]

Inside debt, such as pensions and deferred compensation, constitutes a widely-used form of executive compensation, yet the valuation and incentive effects of these instruments have been almost entirely overlooked by prior work.
Sundaram, Rangarajan K., Yermack, David
core  

Origin of CEO and Compensation Strategy: Differences between Insiders and Outsiders [PDF]

, 2002
Increasingly, U.S. firms are hiring their new CEOs from outside the firms. This study investigates the differences in compensation between outsider CEOs and insider CEOs from three dimensions: pay level, pay and performance link, and pay mix.
Milkovich, George T., Yanadori, Yoshio
core   +1 more source

Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard, Andrew Greenman, Stacia Stetkiewicz, Bouwe Dijkstra, Frances Bowen, Richard Field   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Founding family firms, CEO incentive pay, and dual agency problems [PDF]

, 2016
This paper contributes to the literature on agency theory by examining relations between family involvement and CEO compensation. Using a panel of 362 small U.S.
Mazur, Mieszko, Wu, Betty H.-T.
core   +3 more sources

From Stakeholder Pressure to Strategic Advantage: A Framework of Achieving Environment Sustainability Through Pathway of Carbon Neutrality

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses are increasingly striving to reduce their carbon footprint, with carbon offsetting emerging as a viable pathway towards achieving carbon neutrality. Such efforts signify a demonstrated commitment to fostering environmental sustainability and contributing to a more sustainable future.
Sanjeev Yadav, Ashutosh Samadhiya, Anil Kumar, Sunil Luthra, Krishan Kumar Pandey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Moderating Role of Dividend Policy in Aligning the Accounting and Market based performance Measures with CEO Compensation [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016
This study aims to report the results of an investigation into the effect of accounting and market based performance measures on CEO compensation along with the moderating role of dividend policy.
Farzan Yahya, Zahiruddin Ghazali
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