The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance continues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salaries enjoyed by senior executives in corporations in the US are often contrasted with the relatively low pay received by executives in...

The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance con-tinues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salariesenjoyed by senior executives in corporations primarily in the North American coun-tries are often contrasted with the relatively low...

Die Agency-Theorie verweist darauf, daß die Trennung von Eigentum und Kontrolle in Unternehmen zu einem Interessenskonflikt führen kann, wenn Informationsasymmetrien und opportunistisches Verhalten beobachtet werden. Gleichzeitig bildet die Agency-Theorie den theoretischen Bezugsrahmen für...

There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...

Agency theory assumes a potential conflict of interest between principal and agent. Principals provide incentives to agents to influence agents' behaviour in the interest of the principal. In practice, incentive systems are dominanted by financial incentives and consist of fixed and performance...

There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...

Agency theory assumes a potential conflict of interest between principal and agent. Principals provide incentives to agents to influence agents' behaviour in the interest of the principal. In practice, incentive systems are dominanted by financial incentives and consist of fixed and performance...

Die Agency-Theorie verweist darauf, daß die Trennung von Eigentum und Kontrolle in Unternehmen zu einem Interessenskonflikt führen kann, wenn Informationsasymmetrien und opportunistisches Verhalten beobachtet werden. Gleichzeitig bildet die Agency-Theorie den theoretischen Bezugsrahmen für...