Management Research: Volume 16 Issue 1

Editorial

Martin Larraza-Kintana

The two sides of CEO pay injustice: A power law conceptualization of CEO over and underpayment

Herman Aguinis, Geoffrey P. Martin, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, Ernest H. O’Boyle, Harry Joo

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which chief executive officers (CEOs) deserve the pay they receive both in terms of over and underpayment.

The fattest of the fat cats: observations on Aguinis and colleagues’ findings on CEO pay

Donald C. Hambrick

This paper aims to elaborate upon the work of Aguinis and colleagues (this issue), who showed that there is almost no overlap between the chief executive officers (CEOs; of…

CEO overpayment and underpayment: executives, governance and institutions

Michael Hitt, Katalin Takacs Haynes

Based on the findings of Aguinis et al. (2018) that only a few executives are properly compensated, the purpose of this paper is to examine potential causes and consequences of…

Do CEOs receive the pay they deserve? A new vantage on a familiar question

Adam J. Wowak, Michael J. Mannor, Craig Crossland

This paper aims to explore the implications of Aguinis and colleagues’ study, and in particular their claim that the inconsistency between chief executive officer (CEO) pay and…

The elusive linkage between CEO pay and performance

Gerald Edward Ledford, Edward E. Lawler

The authors comment on the paper by Aguinis et al. (2018). The authors believe that their hypotheses probably are true, but their methodology is flawed and their data do not…

Academic research meets practice: why controversial results are not controversial

Patrick M. Wright, Anthony J. Nyberg

This paper aims to explore some of the practical challenges boards face in setting chief executive officer (CEO) pay to show why the failure to see considerable overlap between…

The rocky road from insight to understanding

James P. Walsh, B. Joseph White, Jeffrey R. Edwards

This paper contains a commentary on the paper by Aguinis, Martin, Gomez-Mejia, O’Boyle and Joo published in this same issue. This paper aims to encourage the readers to examine…

The two sides of CEO pay injustice: a commentary

Albert Cannella, Valerie Sy

The purpose of this paper is to extend discussions in the CEO compensation research domain. Specifically, this paper provides a critical analysis of the power law…

The continuing search for the Holy Grail

Robert M. Wiseman, Hadi Faqihi

The purpose of this paper is to enrich the finding by Aguinis et al. (2018) that there is little overlap between the extremes of firm performance and the extremes of CEO pay using…

Comments on two sides of CEO pay injustice: A power law conceptualization of CEO over and underpayment

Martin J. Conyon

This is a short commentary on Herman Aguinis, Geoffrey Martin, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Ernest Boyle and Harry Joo (2017): “Two sides of CEO pay injustice: A power law conceptualization…

CEO pay is indeed decoupled from CEO performance: charting a path for the future

Herman Aguinis, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, Geoffrey P. Martin, Harry Joo

The purpose of the study is to set a research agenda so that future conceptual and empirical research can improve the understanding of why CEO pay and CEO performance are…