Explaining Executive Pay The roles of managerial power and complexity /

• Main Author: Hengartner, Lukas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : DUV, 2006.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Personnel management.; Business and Management.; Human Resource Management.

The pay of corporate leaders has escalated in the last few decades. At the same time the number of research papers on this issue has soared. Despite an impressive research volume, however, many questions concerning executive compensation remain unsolved. Lukas Hengartner develops broad concepts for...

Table of Contents:

• The compensation setting process
• Research review on executive pay
• Research review on director pay
• Are executives paid for the complexity of the job they have?
• Can powerful managers extract rents?
• Research methods
• Research results
• Discussion
• Conclusions.