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CEO Incentives and Corporate Social Performance

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This paper examines the relationship between CEO incentives and strong and weak corporate social performance. Using the KLD database we find that incentives have no significant relationship with strong social performance. Salary and long-term incentives have a positive association with weak social performance.

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  1. Department of Management, Concordia University, 1550 De Maisonneuve W, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Jean McGuire & Kamal Argheyd

  2. École des Sciences de la Gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal, 315 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Sandra Dow

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McGuire, J., Dow, S. & Argheyd, K. CEO Incentives and Corporate Social Performance. Journal of Business Ethics 45, 341–359 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024119604363

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