Research on compensation and employee benefits has enjoyed a long and rich history.
Energized by a new generation of scholars, changes in the broader workplace context, and …

The authors review management research drawing on prospect theory, focusing primarily on
studies in strategic management and organizational behavior/human resource …

Personnel selection involves exchanges of information between job market actors
(applicants and organizations). These actors do not have an incentive to exchange accurate …

We examine how directors' political ideologies, specifically the board-level average of how
conservative or liberal directors are, influence boards' decisions about CEO compensation …

In this chapter, we address three pay for performance (PFP) questions. First, what are the
conceptual mechanisms by which PFP influences performance? Second, what programs do …

This study reviews several decades of research on the topic of executive background,
defined here as the total of an executive's “experience, knowledge, and education.” We …

In this study, we develop and test a theory of CEO relative pay standing. Specifically, we
propose that CEO s with negative relative pay standing status (underpaid relative to …

We consider a central puzzle surrounding CEO accountability: What explains the payoffs
and penalties that CEOs receive? Invoking Fama's concept of “settling up,” we examine how …

The increased incorporation of time, theoretically and empirically, has dramatically
advanced our understanding of management. Trajectories, which describe longitudinal …

In this study, we examine the following question: What do executives gain from serving on
boards? We propose that board service benefits non-CEO-level executives in the executive …