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Unpacking the dynamics of a contested practice: the case of executive compensation and the shareholder value orientation in the USA
Socio-Economic Review ( IF 4.058 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 , DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaa026
Edward J Carberry 1 , Edward J Zajac 2
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The corporate scandals and market crashes of the 2000s generated significant criticism of the shareholder value orientation (SVO) in the USA. We offer a sociopolitical analysis of how this criticism triggered changes in stock-based executive compensation, a central practice associated with the SVO. We first analyze how corporate stakeholders redefined different forms of stock-based compensation, motivated new regulations and wielded direct challenges to specific firms. We then predict how firm-specific differences in external challenges and intra-firm power relationships were related to changes in the use of stock options and restricted stock grants (RSGs), testing our predictions using a longitudinal dataset of S&P 500 executives between 2002 and 2012. We find that firms facing negative media coverage of their executive compensation practices made less use of both forms of stock-based compensation, while firms facing shareholder activism only made less use of stock options, the form that was more heavily criticized. In addition, firms with more powerful CEOs utilized RSGs more heavily and did so even when facing media criticism. Our findings demonstrate that while stock options were vulnerable to change, stock-based compensation remained resilient because the structural power of CEOs, a core corporate governance feature of the SVO, also remained resilient.

中文翻译:

解开有争议的做法的动态:美国高管薪酬和股东价值取向的案例

2000 年代的公司丑闻和市场崩盘引发了对美国股东价值导向 (SVO) 的重大批评。我们对这种批评如何引发基于股票的高管薪酬的变化进行了社会政治分析,这是与 SVO 相关的核心做法。我们首先分析了企业利益相关者如何重新定义不同形式的基于股票的薪酬、推动新法规以及对特定公司提出直接挑战。然后,我们预测外部挑战和公司内部权力关系的公司特定差异如何与股票期权和限制性股票授予 (RSG) 的使用变化相关,并使用 2002 年至 2012 年间标准普尔 500 指数高管的纵向数据集测试我们的预测. 我们发现,面临媒体对其高管薪酬做法的负面报道的公司较少使用两种基于股票的薪酬形式,而面临股东激进主义的公司仅较少使用股票期权,这种形式受到的批评更为严重。此外,拥有更强大 CEO 的公司更频繁地使用 RSG,即使在面临媒体批评时也会这样做。我们的研究结果表明,虽然股票期权容易发生变化,但基于股票的薪酬仍然具有弹性,因为 CEO 的结构性权力(SVO 的核心公司治理特征)也保持弹性。拥有更强大 CEO 的公司更频繁地使用 RSG,即使在面临媒体批评时也会这样做。我们的研究结果表明,虽然股票期权容易发生变化,但基于股票的薪酬仍然具有弹性,因为 CEO 的结构性权力(SVO 的核心公司治理特征)也保持弹性。拥有更强大 CEO 的公司更频繁地使用 RSG,即使在面临媒体批评时也会这样做。我们的研究结果表明,虽然股票期权容易发生变化,但基于股票的薪酬仍然具有弹性,因为 CEO 的结构性权力(SVO 的核心公司治理特征)也保持弹性。
更新日期:2020-09-02
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