This study examines whether being listed on an Anglo-American stock exchange and/or having Anglo-American executive board members influences executive compensation, using company-level data from Germany, France and the Netherlands. Our sample consists of 581 executive directors, representing 142...

This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of North American and European companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career moves may both depend upon existing networks and contribute to the...

We argue that the dominance of principal-agent theory as an approach to investigating executive pay has led to an overly narrow focus which may be unhelpful when considering cross-country differences and probably also hinders within-country analysis. The paper discusses the interlinked nature of...