This paper investigates the impact of firms’ executive pay disparity on insider trading returns prior corporate earnings disclosures. We find evidence that executive pay disparity has a significant positive relationship with abnormal returns from insider purchases preceding the good earnings...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stock market response to dividend announcements in high growth emerging markets of Gulf countries. Design/methodology/approach: The sample includes 1,092 dividend announcements from 299 listed firms over the period 2010-2015. Findings: In...

This paper examines the relationship between insider abnormal trading returns, executive pay disparity, and CEO turnover. Our study finds both independent and interaction effects of insider abnormal returns and CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO turnovers. First, an increase in insider...

The financial sector of Pakistan has been witnessing high growth since the last two decades. Due to increase of branch network, competition among banks has increased. In this intense competition, employees play pivotal role in the competitiveness of financial sector. To line with this, this...

This paper explores the relationship between impression management and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and how reciprocity, honesty-humility, and job insecurity determines this relationship. Data have been collected based on a sample of 710 contractual faculty members of public and...