Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the antecedents and consequences to pay disparity between the CEO and non-CEO executives from an equity-based perspective. While the principles of agency theory suggest that CEOs are granted higher compensation packages to better align their motives to those of the firm's shareholders, empirical research has not supported a positive relationship between rising CEO pay and firm performance. Some results even suggest a negative relationship. This dissertation argues that if organizational outcomes are determined by the integrated skills and talents of its dominant coalition, and if the management of a firm's trajectory is a shared process, then, the disparity in rewards between the CEO and those that work closest to him becomes an important area of study.
Extent
xiii, 184 p. : ill. (some col.).
Recommended Citation
Pissaris, Seema., "Antecedents and consequences of pay disparity between CEO and non-CEO executives" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1415.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1415
Identifier
FADT58009
Comments
by Seema Pissaris.|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.|Includes bibliography.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, FL : 2008 Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Seema Pissaris.