This paper provides a brief review of the state of knowledge in the field of agency theory. The managerial power approach assumes that a chief executive officer is able to affect the scale of his or her pay. However, Kaplan (2012) and others see a different picture of the corporate-governance...

In this article, the author deals with two issues related to the setting of adequate remuneration of independent members of board of directors. The first concerns the justifiability of negotiating variable remuneration, while the other deals with the issue of providing high pay. In both cases,...

Given the vital role of independent directors in determination of executives' compensation, we explore how independent directors view the CEO pay disparity. Using the data of all companies listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges for the period 2005 to 2015, we find that the...