This study investigates the impact of excluding stock options for non-executive directors (NEDs) on the relationship between executive pay and firm performance. The research focuses on accounting measures and market performance. Using a sample of 220 non-financial firms, including 110 listed...

Recent years have seen a reemergence of the practice of awarding “mega grants” to CEOs. Mega grants are large, one-time equity awards granted in lieu of or in addition to annual awards with the intended purpose of providing significant incentive to the CEO to achieve long-term targets. The...

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...