The Ethics of Executive Compensation

An Introduction (Robert W. Kolb).

Part I: Insights of Empirical Research.

1. Executive Preference for Compensation Structure and Normative Myopia: A Business and Society Research Project. (Diane L. Swanson and Marc Orlitzky).

2. Does Firm Performance Reduce Managerial Opportunism?: The Impact of Performance-based Compensation and Firm Performance on Illegal Accounting Restatements. (Jegoo Lee, Byung-Hee Lee, Sandra Waddock, and Samuel B. Graves).

3. A Preliminary Investigation into the Association between Canadian Corporate Social Responsibility and Executive Compensation. (Lois S. Mahoney ad Linda Thorne).

Part II: Justice-based Analyses of Executive Compensation.

4. How Much is Too Much? A Theoretical Analysis of Executive Compensation from the Standpoint of Distributive Justice. (Jared Harris).

5. Justice, Incentives, and Executive Compensation. (William H. Shaw).

6. CEO Compensation and Virtue Ethics. (Michael Potts).

7. Chihuahuas in the Gardens of Corporate Capitalism. (Lyla D. Hamilton).

Part III: Broadening the Perspective.

8. The Obligation of Corporate Boards to Set and Monitor Compensation. (Carmen M. Alston).

9. Executive Pay in Public Academia: A Non-Justice-Based Argument for the Reallocation of Compensation. (James Stacey Taylor).

10. How to (Try to) Justify CEO Pay. (Jeffrey Moriarty).

11. Executive Compensation: Just Procedures and Outcomes. (Joe DesJardins).

Index.