QUESTIONING THE CONTEXT OF CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN BENCHMARKING CEO COMPENSATION

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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to reflect on existing practices in studying the CEO pay performance issue, with special reference to the context wherein the financial performance measurements were employed. In total, an in-depth content analysis of 40 published articles was done. Some flaws were identified in prior research, namely some studies only use either market-based or accounting-based measurements, only a single performance measurement, measurements without the context of the subjacent risks, monetary values without substance as performance measurements and without the context of a theory. The contribution of this study is that a framework is developed to guide future studies with regard to the context wherein financial performance measures should be employed and that some theories, additional to the agency theory, were identified that should be tested more frequently in pay performance-related studies.

Keywords: Accounting-Based Performance Measurements, CEO Compensation, Market-Based Performance Measurements, Motivation Theories, Risk-Return

How to cite this paper: Oberholzer, M., & Barnard, J. (2015). Questioning the context of corporate performance measures in benchmarking CEO compensation. Corporate Ownership & Control, 13(1-8), 945-957. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i1c8p12