Do the media play a role in corporate governance and, if so, how? Those questions are broad and their answers have implications. This is especially so countries such as U.S. that characterized by free vigorous business press. By governance, we mean traditional of monitoring management to ensure top managers act shareholders’ interests. So whether this active coverage plays guiding interests how...

This paper is the product of a study of what top management find interesting and what is of concern to them in relation to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the second wave of ERP. Very little empirical research exists on the subject of the interests and concerns of CEOs in relation to a company’s ERP System. However research into information system literature indicates that CEO...

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice among students pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi’s f...

I am delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Jack Bogle’s and Jim Walsh’s comments on my article “Are U.S. CEOs Overpaid?” (AMP, May 2008), in which I concluded that the typical U.S. CEO is not overpaid. The main issue I addressed is whether the high pay of CEOs is largely a market phenomenon (and CEOs are paid appropriately), or, instead, is driven by the power of the CEOs and the weak...

Abstract In this paper, we study the effect a CEO’s international work experience has on his or her compensation. By combining human capital theory with resource dependence and resource-based perspective, argue that translates into higher pay. We also suggest comprises several dimensions affect CEO compensation: duration, timing breadth of stays abroad. With data from Europe’s largest stock mar...