This paper examines how executive pay is set when a firm is a business group member. Using Korea as a laboratory setting, we find that member firm's cash compensation for its executives is positively linked to the stock performance of other member firms as well as its own. Further analyses...

Using a unique sample of Chinese business group firms required by the government to disclose double financial statements for the parent and its subsidiaries, we examine the impact of a decentralized decision structure on executive compensation and further tests its mechanism. Our findings show...

This paper examines executive compensation in the subsidiaries of business groups in China. Analyzing a sample of China business groups (the so-called “XiZu JiTuan” in Chinese) from 2003 to 2012, we find convincing evidence of the use of Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE) in the executive...