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100 _aRidge, Jason W.
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245 _aImplications of Multiple Concurrent Pay Comparisons for Top-Team Turnover
300 _a671-690 p.
520 _aThis article relies on tournament and social comparison theorizing to understand how multiple concurrent pay structures and, thus, potential for comparison to multiple referents, affect turnover in the CEO’s top team. Specifically, we explore how the concurrent effects of pay dispersion within the CEO’s top team, pay disparity between the team and the CEO, and pay level in comparison to top teams at other firms in the industry affect turnover among members of the CEO’s top team. Consistent with social comparison theorizing, we find that pay dispersion is positively associated with turnover within CEO’s top teams. We also find that pay disparity has an effect consistent with tournament theorizing in which firms with greater tournament prizes (i.e., CEO salary gap) have lower turnover within their CEOs’ top teams. Furthermore, we find that pay disparity interacts with both pay dispersion and pay level to affect turnover within CEOs’ top teams. These results have theoretical and practical implications for CEOs’ top-team pay design in organizations. Specifically, our findings imply that theoretical mechanisms associated with how firms compensate executives—and the inherent comparisons in which those pay structures result—work in concert to affect turnover within the CEO’s top team. Hence, to understand the effect that compensation has on executives’ subsequent responses, researchers and practitioners must consider multiple concurrent pay references simultaneously.
653 _aTurnover
653 _aTournament Theory,
653 _aSocial Comparison Theory
653 _aInequity
653 _aPay Disparity
653 _aPay Dispersion
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_aDEBORAH E. RUPP
_dWEST LAFAYETTE SAGE PUBLICATION 2012
_o5557180
_tJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
_x 0149-2063
856 _3Volume: 43 issue: 3, page(s): 671-690
_uhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0149206314539349
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_cJA-ARTICLE