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Ceo Compensation And Us High-Tech And Low-Tech Firms' Corporate Performance, Eunsup Daniel Shim, Jooh Lee, In Ki Joo Mar 2009

Ceo Compensation And Us High-Tech And Low-Tech Firms' Corporate Performance, Eunsup Daniel Shim, Jooh Lee, In Ki Joo

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Many factors contribute to the determination of top executive compensation. This paper explores and examines the systematic difference of high-tech and low-tech CEO pays. It examines the relationship between top executive compensation and an Organizational factor, a Market factor and an Accounting factor. It tests CEO’s salary, bonus, and long-term compensation with respect to corporate reputation, ROE, Tobin’s Q, CEO shareholding and firm size.

The results show that CEOs’ Salaries at high-tech firms shows a significantly positive relationship with ROE, Tobin’s Q, and corporate reputation, while only corporate reputation shows a significant relationship with CEOs’ salaries at low-tech firms. In …