<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The executive compensation issue continues to cause protest due to the increasing number of cases of an unjustifiably high level of pay. The main conflict arises from the misalignment of interests between the short-term expectations of the manager and long-term needs of the shareholders. Since there are no universal rules on how to price the executive performance companies reach for different means of establishing the CEO’s compensation and ascertaining manager’s commitment towards maintaining a company’s value. The issue becomes more complex once the compensation rules are not a direct effect of the market power game but are additionally restricted by government. The aim of the paper is to discuss corporate government policies introduced in Israel and their impact on executive compensation level and structure. Israel is amongst those countries that partially regulate CEO compensation and thus the Israeli experience can add to the understanding of the effectiveness of modern corporate governance.</p></abstract>

The executive compensation issue continues to cause protest due to the increasing number of cases of an unjustifiably high level of pay. The main conflict arises from the misalignment of interests between the short-term expectations of the manager and long-term needs of the shareholders. Since there are no universal rules on how to price the executive performance companies reach for different means of establishing the CEO’s compensation and ascertaining manager’s commitment towards maintaining a company’s value. The issue becomes more complex once the compensation rules are not a direct effect of the market power game but are additionally restricted by government. The aim of the paper is to discuss corporate government policies introduced in Israel and their impact on executive compensation level and structure. Israel is amongst those countries that partially regulate CEO compensation and thus the Israeli experience can add to the understanding of the effectiveness of modern corporate governance.

(Re)-structuring the Ceo’s compensation—the case of Israel

Department of International Competitiveness

Poznań University of Economics and Business

Economics and Business Review

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The executive compensation issue continues to cause protest due to the increasing number of cases of an unjustifiably high level of pay. The main conflict...

(Re)-structuring the Ceo’s compensation—the case of Israel

Published Online: Aug 24, 2020

Page range: 105 - 117

Received: May 15, 2020

Accepted: Jul 27, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2020.3.6

Keywords
CEO compensation, inequalities, compensation gap, agency theory, principal, agent conflict, corporate governance

© 2020 Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

(Re)-structuring the Ceo’s compensation—the case of Israel

Published Online: Aug 24, 2020

Page range: 105 - 117

Received: May 15, 2020

Accepted: Jul 27, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2020.3.6

KeywordsCEO compensation, inequalities, compensation gap, agency theory, principal, agent conflict, corporate governance

© 2020 Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
CEO compensation, inequalities, compensation gap, agency theory, principal, agent conflict, corporate governance