College of Business Administration and Public Policy                                                                                                     CCGBE

Call For Papers

The Center will hold an on-line symposium on “Runaway Executive Compensation: Background and Policy Approaches”

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·        Forms of executive compensation, including Golden Parachutes and other severance arrangements

·        Trends in executive compensation

·        Growth of executive compensation

·        Comparisons of CEO pay in the United States and other industrialized countries

·        Impact of soaring executive compensation on shareholder value

·        Transparency of executive compensation in financial reports

·        New SEC Regulations on executive compensation reporting

·        How the cap on deductible executive compensation backfired

·        Board of Directors compensation committees

·        Compensation consultants

·        Executive compensation as a corporate governance issue

·        Executive compensation in non-profit organizations

·        Institutional shareholders—their current and potential influence

·        Proposals to curb the growth of executive compensation, including:

o       Require shareholder advisory approval votes (“Say on Pay”)

o       Increase shareholder influence in the election of directors

o       Enact more progressive income taxation of executive compensation and/or lowered deductibility to the employer

o       Install “Clawback” provisions in executive contracts

o       Tie compensation directly to corporate performance, and to the performance vis-à-vis other companies in the same industry

o       Ban firms providing executive compensation consulting from performing other consulting for the same employer

o       Curtail the size of executive deferred compensation programs and supplemental retirement plans

o       Curtail executive perks

o       Withhold reelection votes from directors who have approved excessive executive compensation

o       Restrict “poison pill” defenses to takeovers

The CCGBE website, http://cbapp.csudh.edu/sites/ccgbe , states that the activities of the Center shall include: “1. Conducting and encouraging high quality research in corporate governance and business ethics, and disseminating the research as widely as possible through a working paper series…” and “2. Providing a website resource for research references…” Therefore, if you believe your working paper can make a meaningful contribution to the available literature, or you would simply like your research to be available to others researching this area, we invite you to submit your working paper. If posted, the working paper will be assigned a Working Paper series number so that researchers can cite it.

[NOTE: If you have any published articles that you would like listed on the Center’s “Useful Links” page, please submit them separately along with citation, abstract and your suggestion as to what aspect(s) of corporate governance or business ethics they apply.]

For further information about the CCGBE, please visit our website.

Submit your papers by email to ccgbe@csudh.edu. Please include the names and affiliations of all authors, plus an abstract of about 100 words.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Franklin Strier, Director
Center For the Study of Corporate Governance and Business Ethics