In this study, I summarize the current state of executive compensation, discuss measurement and incentive issues, document recent trends in executive pay in both U.S. and international firms, and analyze the evolution of executive pay over the past century. Most recent analyses of executive...

Die Personalberatung Futurestep untersuchte die Vergütung von Führungskräften aus 200 Internetfirmen. Das Gehaltsniveau der CEOs, COOs und CFOs ist in Großbritannien etwa doppelt so hoch wie in Deutschland.

Executive pay and corporate governance issues continue to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salaries enjoyed by senior executives in corporations in some economies are often contrasted with the relatively low pay received by executives in other economies. The case...

Durch spektakuläre Einzelfälle rückte insbesondere in den letzten Monaten die Vergütung von deutschen Vorständen in den Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion, an welcher sich nun auch in zunehmendem Maße die Parteien beteiligen. Dieser Bericht fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse einer vom...

There is common consensus that executive compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed strategic change in corporations may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-tasked theoretical considerations, our evidence for...

IPO firm executives are significant net sellers in the year immediately following the IPO year. Two significant variables affecting their sales are the number of stock options exercised during the year and the number of shares held at the end of the preceding year. Contrary to the findings of...