Excessive Pay

Excessive Pay is a compensation practice within executive remuneration that belongs to the category of pay levels or structures and is distinguished by exceeding reasonable, performance-aligned, or shareholder-value-justified amounts to the extent that it undermines corporate governance, stakeholder trust, or organizational performance.

Publications

5.5K

Citations

101

Authors

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Excessive Executive Compensation

Parents

Executive Compensation Oversight

Publications

Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All*

Uri Gneezy, Aldo Rustichini · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2000 · 2.2K citations

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +13

CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How

Michael C. Jensen, Kevin J. Murphy · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1999 · 565 citations · Full text

Management, Business Economics, Executive Compensation +15

Shareholders’ Say on Pay: Does It Create Value?

Jie Cai, Ralph A. Walkling · Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis · 2010 · 366 citations

Management, Corporate Governance, Economics +17

Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay

Thomas A. DiPrete, Gregory M. Eirich, Matthew Pittinsky · American Journal of Sociology · 2010 · 212 citations · Full text

Management, Business Economics, Corporate Governance +17

CEO Compensation, Director Compensation, and Firm Performance: Evidence of Cronyism

Ivan E. Brick, Oded Palmon, John K. Wald · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2002 · 156 citations · Full text

Management, Corporate Governance, Performance Management +15

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Authors

101

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Mary Ellen Carter
Boston College, United States
3 publications · 99 citations
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Brian D. Cadman
University of Utah, United States
2 publications · 84 citations
2
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Stephen A. Hillegeist
Arizona State University, United States
2 publications · 84 citations
2
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Jeffrey Moriarty
Bentley University, United States
2 publications · 157 citations
2
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Michael B. Dorff
Southwestern Law School, United States
2 publications · 30 citations
2
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Institutions

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 6 publications · 852 citations
6
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American Economic Review
2 publications · 95 citations
2
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Business Ethics Quarterly
BEQ · 2 publications · 157 citations
2
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The Journal of corporation law
2 publications · 25 citations
2
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Journal of Corporate Finance
1 publications · 107 citations
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