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ALWAYS DESIRE MORE? CEO PERCEPTIONS OF RELATIVE COMPENSATION, RISK PROPENSITY, AND INNOVATION IN SMEs

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  • ANDRES FELIPE CORTES

    (Jack Welch College of Business & Technology, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue. Fairfield, CT 06825, United States)

  • YOUNGEEUN LEE

    (College of Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States)

  • POL HERRMANN

    (Bob and Kay Smith Entrepreneurship, Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University, 2167 Union Drive. Ames, IA 50011, United States)

Abstract

We study how the chief executive officers (CEOs) compensation perceptions and risk propensity influence exploratory innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on survey data collected from 381 CEOs of private SMEs in Colombia, we find that (1) CEO underpayment perceptions have a positively increasing relationship with exploratory innovation, (2) CEO overpayment perceptions have a positively decreasing relationship with exploratory innovation, and (3) CEOs’ risk propensity does not moderate these relationships. Our study informs small business managers, boards of directors, and policy makers on how compensation aspirations and comparisons serve as motives for exploratory behaviour. Our study also represents a unique attempt to capture CEOs’ perceptions of their compensation and explore their influence on strategic outcomes. Further, we underscore the need to extend social comparison theories to better understand how CEOs’ compensation and dispositional motives shape firms.

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  • Andres Felipe Cortes & Youngeeun Lee & Pol Herrmann, 2023. "ALWAYS DESIRE MORE? CEO PERCEPTIONS OF RELATIVE COMPENSATION, RISK PROPENSITY, AND INNOVATION IN SMEs," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 27(09n10), pages 1-21, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:27:y:2023:i:09n10:n:s1363919623500457
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919623500457
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