Size, Growth, Profits and Executive Compensation in the Large Corporation: A Study of the 500 Largest United Kingdom and United States Industrial Corporations

Preface xi 72 3 Sales, profits and executive compensation 74 4 Conclusions 79 CONTENTS vii 9 Executive Compensation and Corporate Objectives in the Rate of Return Regulated Firm 1 Introduction 2 Models of resource allocation in the rate of return regulated firm 3 Empirical analysis 4 Conclusions 10 Conclusions x LIST OF TABLES 8.1 Compensation of chief executive, profits and sales, non-regulated firms: heteroscedasticity, multicollinearity and I-values of regression coefficients for alternative values of () 77 9.1 Compensation of chief executive, profits and sales, rate of return regulated firms: heteroscedasticity, multicollinearity and I-values of regression coefficients for alternative values of () 85 Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-2 Alternative Measures of Firm Size: Some Theoretical Considerations....Pages 3-9 Alternative Measures of Firm Size: Empirical Evidence....Pages 10-27 Size and Growth of Firms....Pages 28-37 Alternative Measures of Concentration: Theory and Evidence....Pages 38-47 Profitability, Size and Concentration....Pages 48-59 Variability of Profits and Firm Size....Pages 60-70 Executive Compensation and Corporate Objectives in the Non-Regulated Firm....Pages 71-79 Executive Compensation and Corporate Objectives in the Rate of Return Regulated Firm....Pages 80-86 Conclusions....Pages 87-91 Back Matter....Pages 93-103