The Association Between Gender-Diverse Compensation Committees and CEO Compensation

We examine the association between gender-diverse compensation committees and CEO pay and find that CEO compensation levels are negatively associated with gender-diversity of the compensation committee, but not gender-diversity of the board. Furthermore, we find that excess CEO compensation is negat...

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Auteurs: Bugeja, Martin (Auteur) ; Matolcsy, Zoltan (Auteur) ; Spiropoulos, Helen (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2016
Dans: Journal of business ethics
Année: 2016, Volume: 139, Numéro: 2, Pages: 375-390
Sujets non-standardisés:B Compensation committee
B CEO compensation
B Gender-diversity
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Résumé:We examine the association between gender-diverse compensation committees and CEO pay and find that CEO compensation levels are negatively associated with gender-diversity of the compensation committee, but not gender-diversity of the board. Furthermore, we find that excess CEO compensation is negatively related to subsequent return on assets for firms with an all-male compensation committee but not for firms with a gender-diverse compensation committee. These results suggest that CEOs do receive some level of excess compensation which can be mitigated by having one or more females on the compensation committee.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2660-y