Almost 30 years after the introduction of the CIO position, the ideal CIO reporting structure (whether the CIO should report to the CEO or the CFO) is yet to be prescribed. There is an intuitive assumption among some proponents of IT that the CIO should always report to the CEO to promote the...

Almost 30 years after the introduction of the CIO position, the ideal CIO reporting structure (whether the CIO should report to the CEO or the CFO) is yet to be identified. There is an intuitive assumption among some proponents of IT that the CIO should always report to the CEO to promote the...

In this study, building upon the relative performance evaluation framework and agency theory we study issues related to long-term as well as short-term compensation for CIOs. We reveal that long-term CIO compensation is linked to a firm’s stock performance while short-term CIO compensation is...

In this study, we examine whether the initiation of credit default swaps affects the reference entity's executive compensation design. With both human capital and financial capital highly associated with the firm's bankruptcy risk, risk averse managers prefer cash compensation over option...

We study the responses of Chinese public firm chairpersons to their perceptions of bad luck pertaining to the Chinese zodiac year. We find that these perceptions of bad luck increase managers’ sense of risk and lead them to increase their corporate cash holdings, even though the actual...