Researchers have become very interested in socially aversive personality traits in recent
years as reflected by the considerable number of publications concerning the Dark Triad of …

This article investigates the impact of CEO attributes on corporate reputation, financial
performance, and corporate sustainable growth in India. Using static panel data …

Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys
a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary …

We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using
a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse …

We conjecture that a firm's organization capital (OC) has a substitution effect on its executive
pay-for-performance sensitivity (PPS) and empirically document a robust and significant …

Executive pay disparity, as measured by chief executive officer (CEO) pay slice (CPS), is
positively associated with the implied cost of equity, even after controlling for other …

This study uses both a functionalist paradigm of social theory and agency theory
assumptions to examine whether CEO remuneration is performance sensitive and, vice …

Hedge fund activists target firms engaging in empire building and improve their future
acquisition and divestiture strategy. Following intervention, activist targets make fewer …

This study examines the ex-post consequences of CEO compensation for shareholder
value. The main objective is to explore whether companies that pay their CEO excessive …

Using a sample of listed firms from 2012 to 2017 in the A-share markets of Shanghai Stock
Exchange, we examine how textual tone influences a firm's future value based on a total of …