The failure to document a consistent and robust relationship between executive pay and firm
performance has frustrated scholars and practitioners for over three quarters of a century …

To many, the principal–agent model is the obvious lens through which executive pay should
be viewed. Such a sentiment sits uncomfortably with a large number of empirical studies …

Based on a panel of US firms over the period of 1992 to 2004, we evaluated whether firms
managed by female CEOs exhibit the same performance as firms managed by male CEOs …

In the context of middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, the existing literature lacks in
sufficient research on the impact of Transactional Leadership (TL) on job satisfaction (JS) …

This paper tests the proposition that higher tournament incentives will result in greater risk-
taking by senior managers in order to increase their chance of promotion to the rank of CEO …

We investigate the relation between the CEO Pay Slice (CPS)—the fraction of the aggregate
compensation of the top-five executive team captured by the Chief Executive Officer—and …

This study examines the association between chief financial officer (CFO) equity incentives
and earnings management. Chief executive officer (CEO) equity incentives have been …

This paper examines why CFOs become involved in material accounting manipulations. We
find that while CFOs bear substantial legal costs when involved in accounting …

We use a unique data set that contains information on more than 1,000 Chief Executive
Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) around the world to investigate the …

We undertake a broad-based study of the effect of managerial risk-taking incentives on
corporate financial policies and show that the risk-taking incentives of chief executive …