The Governance of Directors' Pay: Evidence from UK Companies
Andrew Benito and
Martin Conyon
Journal of Management & Governance, 1999, vol. 3, issue 2, 117-136
Abstract:
We examine the determination of directors' compensation in UK quoted companies between 1985 and 1994. The primary innovation contained in the paper is the focus on the governance mechanisms that determine pay outcomes. Our results indicate that: (i) directors' compensation is positively related to pre-dated shareholder returns and company size with the quantitative effect of the latter dominating the former. (ii) We find that the pay-for-performance link has become quantitatively stronger over our sample period. (iii) There has been positive adherence to the principles of the Cadbury report, but these variables play little statistical role in shaping the direct compensation of top directors. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999
Date: 1999
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)
Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1023/A:1009995710541 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jmgtgv:v:3:y:1999:i:2:p:117-136
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... 29/journal/10997/PS2
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009995710541
Access Statistics for this article
Journal of Management & Governance is currently edited by Lino Cinquini
More articles in Journal of Management & Governance from Springer, Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().