Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Lucian Bebchuk

ISBN 10: 0674022289 / ISBN 13: 9780674022287

Editore: Harvard University Press, 2006

2006. Paperback. The company is underperforming and the CEO gets . a multimillion-dollar raise. Demonstrating that the flaws in corporate governance have produced distortions in executive pay, this book looks at the managers' influence over their own pay - and of a system that must change if firms are to be managed in the shareholders interest of shareholders. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: KJ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. . . . . . Codice articolo V9780674022287

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The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders.

Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm's length with the executives they are meant to oversee. They give a richly detailed account of how pay practices--from option plans to retirement benefits--have decoupled compensation from performance and have camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. Executives' unwonted influence over their compensation has hurt shareholders by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives.

This book identifies basic problems with our current reliance on boards as guardians of shareholder interests. And the solution, the authors argue, is not merely to make these boards more independent of executives as recent reforms attempt to do. Rather, boards should also be made more dependent on shareholders by eliminating the arrangements that entrench directors and insulate them from their shareholders. A powerful critique of executive compensation and corporate governance, Pay without Performance points the way to restoring corporate integrity and improving corporate performance.

Product Description: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

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Titolo: Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled ...
Casa editrice: Harvard University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Legatura: Brossura
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