Specificity of CEO human capital and compensation
β Scribed by Dawn Harris; Constance Helfat
- Book ID
- 101239924
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0143-2095
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β¦ Synopsis
Much research on top management compensation has focused on the relationship between pay and firm performance. Firms, however, may compensate executives for inputs such as skills, as well as for outputs such as firm performance. This study refocuses attention on the links between managerial abilities and compensation by examining pay differences between types of CEO successors who have differential skills-namely, internal and external successors.
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