Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features

We use a sample of 964 executive directors representing 354 Singapore publicly listed firms to examine linkage between firm performance and cash-based bonus payments. As a pooled OLS regression model may hide different models that characterize subsets of observations we use latent class analysis to...

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Main Authors: Van der Zahn, J-L., Singh, Inderpal, Brown, Alistair
Format: Journal Article
Published: Virtus interpress 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19434
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author Van der Zahn, J-L.
Singh, Inderpal
Brown, Alistair
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Singh, Inderpal
Brown, Alistair
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description We use a sample of 964 executive directors representing 354 Singapore publicly listed firms to examine linkage between firm performance and cash-based bonus payments. As a pooled OLS regression model may hide different models that characterize subsets of observations we use latent class analysis to further examine the data and to identify more specifically the influence of corporate governance features. Our latent class analysis results indicate that remuneration committees with members having their interests better aligned with shareholders (such as presence of a significant owner) appear more likely to consider the incremental value of tying executive director compensation to intellectual capital performance. Remuneration committees with a lower risk of influence from managerial power were also found to be more likely to support a compensation linkage for executive directors to intellectual capital performance. The influence of the remuneration committee features is evident for both entrepreneurial and traditional firms. Overall, our findings are consistent with both the optimal-contract pricing and managerial power views of executive compensation setting.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-194342017-01-30T12:13:48Z Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features Van der Zahn, J-L. Singh, Inderpal Brown, Alistair executive compensation remuneration committee corporate governance We use a sample of 964 executive directors representing 354 Singapore publicly listed firms to examine linkage between firm performance and cash-based bonus payments. As a pooled OLS regression model may hide different models that characterize subsets of observations we use latent class analysis to further examine the data and to identify more specifically the influence of corporate governance features. Our latent class analysis results indicate that remuneration committees with members having their interests better aligned with shareholders (such as presence of a significant owner) appear more likely to consider the incremental value of tying executive director compensation to intellectual capital performance. Remuneration committees with a lower risk of influence from managerial power were also found to be more likely to support a compensation linkage for executive directors to intellectual capital performance. The influence of the remuneration committee features is evident for both entrepreneurial and traditional firms. Overall, our findings are consistent with both the optimal-contract pricing and managerial power views of executive compensation setting. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19434 Virtus interpress fulltext
spellingShingle executive compensation
remuneration committee
corporate governance
Van der Zahn, J-L.
Singh, Inderpal
Brown, Alistair
Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title_full Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title_fullStr Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title_full_unstemmed Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title_short Intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
title_sort intellectual capital performance and cash-based incentive payments for executive directors: impact of remuneration committee and corporate governance features
topic executive compensation
remuneration committee
corporate governance
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19434