This paper examines how party dominance affects elected politicians’ quality, measured by their career path. Politicians’ career is divided between political and technical or administrative posts. To examine the relationship between party dominance and career path, I use data from the...

Previous empirical evidence which evaluated the accuracy of management earnings or sales forecasts consistently revealed these forecasts to be on average significantly overoptimistic. However, all studies analyzed forecasts from public disclosures, which are an important signal to investors and...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion for the shifting of focus of corporate executives from agency theory to stakeholder theory.Design/methodology/approach – This study entails a literature review of the topic area.Findings – The findings show that there is much benefit and...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion for the board influence on board of directors and CEO remuneration of public listed corporation.Design/methodology/approach – This study entails Australia, The United States of America and The United Kingdom.Findings – The findings show that there...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion for the shareholder influence on board of directors and CEO remuneration of public listed corporation.Design/methodology/approach – This study entails Australia, The United States of America and The United Kingdom.Findings – The findings show that...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion looking at whether CEO and Executive Directors Shareholdings have an impact on Firm Performance.Design/methodology/approach – This study entails Australia, The United States of America and The United Kingdom. The data collected is from public listed...

Kato & Long (2005) state that executive compensation has attracted much attention from economists in the past two decades yet most academic work on executive compensation has been concentrated on a few developed countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., mainly due to data availability. In light...

This paper develops a discussion looking at whether CEO Remuneration has an impact on Firm Performance after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This study entails Australian CEO's and Firms and the data collected is from public listed corporations from 2010-2012. The developed models are...

This paper develops a discussion around the Executive “Efficiency Index” as to its nature and importance.This study entails US, UK and Australian CEO's and Executive Director Remuneration and Profit data from public listed firms.The data collected is from public listed corporations from...

This paper investigates whether adoptions of executive stock ownership plans coincide with decreased incentives to meet or just beat analysts' near-term EPS forecasts. Firms often assert that ownership plans focus executives on long-term performance. I find that the impact of these adoptions on...