How actors embedded in institutions can change those institutions is known as the paradox of embedded agency. Although academic interest in embedded agency has increased in recent years, what enables actors to engage in embedded agency is still not well understood. One resource that may assist...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the differing attitudes of salaried chief financial officers (CFOs) that can be associated with agency theory and stewardship theory. CFO attitudes are investigated because CFOs typically face additional agency conflict in their roles as overseers of the...

Bonus banks are multi-year performance plans for deferring bonus payments and enhancing pay-for-performance by facilitating downward corrections of bonuses. This paper examines the incentive properties of bonus bank schemes based on performance measures as proposed in the literature. To attain...