When do American CEOs have covenants not to compete (CNCs) in their employment contracts? To answer this question, we collected a random sample of nearly 1000 CEO employment contracts for 500 companies randomly selected from the S&P 1500 for the time period 1996 to 2010. Our main findings are...

This chapter for the Research Handbook on Executive Pay, a forthcoming book on executive compensation to be published by Edgar Elgar Publishing, gives a dynamic overview of the key Australian corporate governance and legal rules that impact on executive remuneration practices at publicly-traded...

Labor unions are aggressively using their ownership power to push corporate-governance reforms. So far, much of their activity is tactical. Lasting changes in corporate governance can occur if unions develop a more strategic model of their role in corporate governance. A stretegic model would...