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SUSTAINABILITY
卷 13, 期 13, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13137341
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managerial compensation; corporate social responsibility; CEO compensation; executive compensation; compensation structure
The study found a positive relationship between CSR and managerial compensation, but this relationship is significant only with lower levels of CSR. Additionally, CSR is positively associated with the proportion of equity-based compensation and negatively associated with the proportion of cash-based compensation. Companies with lower levels of CSR tend to design a compensation scheme that incentivizes managers to meet CSR investment goals.
Ongoing regulatory efforts aim to link managerial compensation with a firm's performance. However, little is known about whether and how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals are considered in the design of the managerial compensation scheme. This paper addresses this research question by analyzing a sample of Spanish listed firms for the period spanning 2013-2018. The outcomes of the regressions suggest that there is a positive relationship between CSR and the managerial compensation, but this relationship is significant only with lower levels of CSR. The study also reveals that CSR is positively associated with the proportion of equity-based compensation and, therefore, negatively associated with the proportion of cash-based compensation. In all, our results suggest that firms with lower levels of CSR, likely following social pressures, seek to improve their investments in CSR; and, in doing so, they design a managerial compensation scheme that incentivizes the manager to meet the firm's goals related to CSR investments. Hence, since CSR is associated with an increase in the long-term firm's value, the equity-based component of the managerial scheme is higher than in the remaining firms. However, the high proportion of cash-based compensation is far from the desirable goals promoted by the Governance Codes.
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