Corporate social responsibility and CEO compensation revisited : do disaggregation, market stress, gender matter?

• Main Authors: Rekker, Saphira A.C., Benson, Karen L., Faff, Robert W.
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Accounting::Corporate governance
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93700; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38369
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we examine the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CEO compensation. Both CSR and CEO compensation are disaggregated into various sub-components. We also consider impact of the market crisis and the relevance of gender. Our results show that there is a negative r...