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Simon Ian Peck
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Prof. Ph.D.
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Peck
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Simon Ian
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+41 71 224 2448
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PublicationCEO generalist experience and CEO pay(Academy of Management Conference, 2019-08)Type: conference paper
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PublicationWhen more pays less: CEO career variety and CEO initial compensation( 2018-08)
;Mueller, PhilippStudies show that generalist CEOs with high levels of career variety receive higher compensation. Challenging this prevailing assumption, we acknowledge the drawbacks of extensive levels of CEO career variety and predict an inverted U-shaped relationship between CEO career variety and CEO initial compensation. Integrating the generalism and specialization views of human capital, we postulate that, at an initial stage, the merits of increasingly varied human capital increase a CEO’s value and hence promote higher levels of compensation. After a threshold, however, the drawbacks associated with extensive levels of career variety offset its merits, gradually diminishing CEO value and pay.Type: conference paper -
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PublicationNew diversity at corporate boards( 2005-05-06)Tacheva, SabinaThis paper sheds some light on new diversity entering modern corporate boards by scrutinising its antecedents and interactions with other aspects of board composition such as more traditional demographic forms of diversity and directors' independence. In a sample of 210 Swiss publicly listed firms over a period of three years (2001-2003) we analyse firm and board level antecedents of board nationality and gender diversity. Further, we look closely at the characteristics of all 1678 directors in the year 2003 in order to investigate how board members nationality and gender interact with directors' level of independence, number of other directorships and demographic characteristics. Our results suggest that whereas foreign directors tend to be more independent, women directors are more likely to be affiliated to firm management through family ties and that foreign directors hold significantly lower number of directorships at other Swiss boards. Diverse directors also differ in terms of educational background, educational level, age and board tenure. We conclude that to manage new diversity at corporate boards it is important to understand the characteristics, qualifications and affiliations that diverse directors bring to the boardroom.Type: conference paper
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PublicationHappy few, band of brothers? Determinants and effects of board nomination committees in Switzerland( 2005-08-08)
;Tacheva, SabinaHu, YanThis paper assesses the corporate governance related antecedents of nomination committee adoption, and the impact of nomination committees' existence and their composition on board independence and board demographic diversity. We conducted a longitudinal study of board composition amongst 210 Swiss public companies from January 2001 through December 2003, a period during which the Swiss (Stock) Exchange introduced new corporate governance related disclosure guidelines. We find firms with nomination committees are more likely to have higher number of independent and foreign directors, but not more likely to have higher number of female board members. Further, the existence of nomination committees is associated with a higher degree of nationality diversity but is not related to board educational diversity. We also find that nomination committee composition matters in the nomination of independent and foreign, but not of female directors. Our results suggest that understanding different board roles and composition require a multi-theoretical approach, and that agency theory, institutional theory and group effectiveness theory help to explain different aspects of board composition and work. Finally, the paper discusses the concept of diversity and appropriate ways to study diversity in a boardroom context.Type: conference paper -
PublicationProfessors on Corporate Boards( 2004-08-06)
;Sikavica, KatarinaWagner, HardyType: conference paper