Sharing the wealth: social comparisons and pay dispersion in the CEO's top team†

By J. Fredrickson, Alison Davis-Blake, W. G. Sanders. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Safety Research

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Minding the Gap (2016, background): “The SEC requires that firms provide compensation information for their CEO and the four next highest paid managers (Fredrickson et al., 2010).”
Politically connected boards and top executive pay in Chinese listed firms (2015, background): “Thus, even though previous research indicates that social-psychological processes that influence pay allocation at lower levels generalize well to board members (Fredrickson et al., 2010; Westphal and Zajac, 1995, 1997) we”
Getting Everyone on Board (2015, background): “Such a focus on individual performance redirects TMT members away from group goals and collective efforts (Chen et al., 2005; Fredrickson et al., 2010; Siegel & Hambrick, 2005).”
Creating incentives for innovation? The relationship between pay dispersion in R&D groups and firm innovation performance (2013, methodology): “To measure the growth opportunities of a firm, we used the market-to-book ratio (Fredrickson et al., 2010), which was calculated as the ratio of a firm’s market value to its book value.”
CEO Greed, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Organizational Resilience to Systemic Shocks (2020, background): “…employees are motivated and incentivized to compete with their colleagues (Lazear & Rosen, 1981), and this can give rise to several undesirable behaviors, such as conflict (Fredrickson et al., 2010) and a manipulation of or an unwillingness to share information (Milgrom & Roberts, 1988).”
When much more of a difference makes a difference: Social comparison and tournaments in the CEO's top team (2015, methodology): “We follow previous research that defines pay disparity as the difference in pay between the CEO and the top four compensated executives in the TMT (Carpenter, 2002; Carpenter and Sanders, 2002; Fredrickson, Davis-Blake, and Sanders, 2010; Henderson and Fredrickson, 2001).”