Troubled by unequal pay rather than low pay: The incentive effects of a top management team pay gap

We examine the relationships with firm performance of the internal pay gap among individual members of the top management team (TMT) and the compensation level of TMT members relative to their industry peers. We find that pay gap is positively related to firm performance and that this positive relat...

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Main Authors: Yue Xu, Yunguo Liu, Gerald J. Lobo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-06-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309116000022