The first volume in the Leeds School Series on Business & Society, this collection of lectures demonstrates the valuable results of a timely exchange of ideas regarding the nature of executive compensation. Includes discussions across academic disciplines, perspectives, and intellectual orientations on the oft-debated topic of executive compensation. Gathers for the first time a series of lectures delivered at the 2004 Japha Symposium at the University of Colorado. Provides the reader with insight into the fundamental problems from a social and ethical perspective, and proposes a myriad of possible solutions.
Author(s): Robert Kolb
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 192
The Ethics of Executive Compensation......Page 1
Contributors......Page 9
An Introduction Robert W. Kolb......Page 11
PART I Insights of Empirical Research......Page 19
1 Executive Preference for Compensation Structure and Normative Myopia: A Business and Society Research Project Diane L. Swanson Marc Orlitzky
......Page 23
2 Does Firm Performance Reduce Managerial Opportunism? The Impact of Performance-based Compensation and Firm Performance on Illegal Accounting Restatements Jegoo Lee Byung-Hee Lee Sandra Waddock Samuel B. Graves
......Page 42
3
A Preliminary Investigation into the Association between Canadian Corporate Social Responsibility and Executive Compensation Lois S. Mahoney Linda Thorne......Page 65
PART I I
Justice-based Analyses of Executive Compensation......Page 75
4 How Much is Too Much? A Theoretical Analysis of Executive Compensation from the Standpoint of Distributive Justice Jared Harris
......Page 77
5 Justice, Incentives, and Executive Compensation William H. Shaw
......Page 97
6 CEO Compensation and Virtue Ethics Michael Potts
......Page 111
7 Chihuahuas in the Gardens of Corporate Capitalism Lyla D. Hamilton
......Page 126
PART I I I
Broadening the Perspective......Page 133
8 The Obligation of Corporate Boards to Set and Monitor Compensation Carmen M. Alston
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9 Executive Pay in Public Academia: A Non-Justice-Based Argument for the Reallocation of Compensation James Stacey Taylor
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10 How to (Try to) Justify CEO Pay Jeffrey Moriarty
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11 Executive Compensation: Just Procedures and Outcomes Joe DesJardins
......Page 182
INDEX......Page 189