Abstract
Executive compensation is one of the most crucial elements in determining firm performance because similar to the commander-in-chief of an army, a chief executive officer (CEO) of a company makes corporate decisions with the aim to maximize profit. This paper will study the level of performance-based executive compensation used by the U.S.-based multinational corporations (MNCs) and the U.S. domestic corporations (DCs) to control for external factors of the firms and the relationship between firm performance and performance-based executive compensation. We use cross-sectional ordinary least squares regression to support the two-stage least squares model in testing for our hypotheses. The empirical results suggest that as the level of foreign operation increases for MNCs, the performance-based executive compensation decreases because of the negative relationship cet. par., but firm performance has positive correlation to performance-based executive compensation. Our results of the primary model do not support our hypothesis of our first model.
Advisor
Sell, John
Department
Business Economics
Recommended Citation
Phyo, Phu, "Does Performance-based Executive Compensation Matter More for the U.S.-based Multinational Corporations or the U.S. Domestic Corporations?" (2015). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 6586.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/6586
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Business and Corporate Communications | Corporate Finance | Strategic Management Policy
Keywords
Executive Compensation, Multinational Corporations, Domestic Corporations, Firm Performance
Publication Date
2015
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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