'Fat cat' pay / Shaun Tyson -- Shareholders' attitude to directors' pay / Paul Norris -- Accountability, transparency and performance : comparing annual report disclosures on CEO pay across Europe / Sébastien Point -- Director performance standards and rewards in France / Frank Bournois and...

Insights of empirical research -- Executive preference for compensation structure and normative myopia : a business and society research project / Diane L. Swanson and Marc Orlitzky -- Does firm performance reduce managerial opportunism? : the impact of performance based compensation and firm...

Prologue: the compensation committee meets -- Introduction: the battle over executive compensation -- Executive compensation in the U.S. corporate model -- The goals of executive compensation -- Our approach -- The myths and realities of pay for performance -- The realities of pay for...