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Religious Institutional Environment and Executive Pay Dispersion

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  • Zhang, Ying
  • Ruan, Hongfei
  • Tong, Li

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This study extends the extant literature on executive pay dispersion by exploring the cultural-cognitive social determinants. We investigate how religious institutional environments, including Buddhism- and Confucianism-based institutions, shape vertical executive pay dispersion. We theorize that a Buddhism-based institutional environment is negatively related to vertical executive pay dispersion. In contrast, we propose competing hypotheses regarding how a Confucianism-based institutional environment affects vertical executive pay dispersion. With a sample of Chinese public firms, we find that both Buddhism- and Confucianism-based institutional environments are negatively associated with a firm's vertical executive pay dispersion. Supplementary analyses show that the aforementioned main effects are attenuated when a firm is embedded by a communist party branch and has a younger CEO.

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  • Zhang, Ying & Ruan, Hongfei & Tong, Li, 2024. "Religious Institutional Environment and Executive Pay Dispersion," Management and Organization Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 20(2), pages 265-295, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:maorev:v:20:y:2024:i:2:p:265-295_5
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