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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337810503321

Autore

Pepper Alexander

Titolo

Agency Theory and Executive Pay : The Remuneration Committee's Dilemma / / by Alexander Pepper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

9783319999692

3319999699

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 pages)

Disciplina

658.4072

Soggetti

Corporate governance

Personnel management

Industrial organization

Psychobiology

Human behavior

Corporate Governance

Human Resource Management

Organization

Behavioral Neuroscience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Agency Costs, Coordination Problems and the Remuneration Committee's Dilemma -- 2. What's Wrong with Agency Theory? -- 3. What a Public Corporation Really Is -- 4. Executive Pay as a Collective Action Problem -- 5. Behavioural Agency Theory -- 6. The Modern Corporation's Final Chapter.

Sommario/riassunto

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay. It argues that while Jensen and Meckling (1976) were right in their analysis of the agency problem in public corporations they were wrong about the proposed solutions. Drawing on ideas from economics, psychology, sociology and the philosophy of science, the author explains how standard agency theory has contributed to the problem of executive pay rather than solved it. The book explores why companies should be regarded as real entities not legal fictions, how



executive pay in public corporations can be conceptualised as a collective action problem and how behavioural science can help in the design of optimal incentive arrangements. An insightful and revolutionary read for those researching corporate governance, HRM and organisation theory, this useful book offers potential solutions to some of the problems with executive pay and the standard model of agency.