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Browsing Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) by Subject "Chief executive officer (CEO)"
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Toscano, Roberta
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
As a CEO assumes an important role in an organization, his or her personality, with emphasis on arrogance, may affect a multitude of board members’ attitudes. This study gauges the effect of CEO arrogance on board members’ ...
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Shaw, Paul Anthony
(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-27)
Orientation: CEO remuneration has attracted attention over the past two decades, with significant renewed interest in light of the role it is said to have played in contributing to the global financial crisis. At the heart ...
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Van Melle Kamp, Chris; Hofmeyr, Karl; Adonisi, Mandla
(UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2014)
In this study we draw on a series of in-depth interviews with chief executives of
some of South Africa’s most prominent businesses, to investigate how their
careers unfolded as they rose to the top of their organisatio ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.; Ncube, Marvin
(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2017-10-30)
BACKGROUND : Optimal contracting continues to dominate boardroom and dinner discussions
worldwide in light of the 2008 global financial crisis and especially in South Africa, due to the
growing income gap. Increased ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-30)
ORIENTATION : The level of chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and its relationship
with organisational performance has generated considerable interest worldwide. In light of
compromised mining productivity as a ...
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Ramgath, Wayne; Bussin, Mark H.R.
(AOSIS, 2022-02-10)
ORIENTATION : Research is inconclusive regarding which factors that determine Chief Executive Officers (CEO) remuneration. There is evidence of a positive link between the risky actions taken by CEOs, incentivised by their ...
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Slabbert, Sean
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
Stock options increasingly feature as part of CEO compensation, and there is evidence that CEOs of South African listed target companies engage in the practice of awarding themselves more options prior to takeover. This ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.; Barrett, Sean
(UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2016)
South Africa’s labour policies and the growing societal calls to better explain
executive remuneration create a unique opportunity to examine the effects of race
on CEO pay. This empirical research study sought to ...
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Barrett, Sean
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Orientation: The available literature has revealed a polarised picture regarding the
effects of race on CEO remuneration. This division centres on whether race is a beneficial factor
or not with regard to the level and ...
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Govender, Ashley
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
The crucial decisions that impact the performance of an organisation are usually taken by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). However, little is known about the impact that a CEO's risk appetite has on the decision making ...
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Lamberti, Mark J.; Lew, Charlene
(Emerald, 2025-01)
PURPOSE : Following identity theory from a symbolic-interactionist perspective, we explore the post-retirement role identity reformation of public company CEOs to uncover the process elements through which role identities ...
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Pillay, Magesh
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
It is widely held that CEOs are central to the successful financial performance of companies. Yet, little attention has been given to the correlation between CEO tenure and financial performance of companies specifically. ...
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Toscano, Roberta; Price, Gavin; Scheepers, Caren Brenda
(Emerald, 2018)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to test the effects of CEO arrogance on key attitudes of a company’s top management team (TMT).
DESIGN/METHOD/APPROACH : An experimental design involving a business simulation is used ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.; Wocke, Albert; Deysel, Benno
(AOSIS, 2023-03-17)
BACKGROUND : Chief executive officer (CEO) payment and company performance are highly controversial, and existing research has focused on this link for decades. The study was conducted in South Africa where corporate ...
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Mphokane, Mathesane Seakgelo
(University of Pretoria, 2010-07-09)
It is necessary to address the barriers experienced by female middle managers in the coal mining industry in order to ensure their retention and personal growth. Mining in South Africa is still a male dominated industry. ...
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Mthombeni, Morris; Chizema, Amon
(Emerald, 2022-06)
PURPOSE : This study aims to analyse trust and distrust as specific board processes between the board chair and chief executive officer (CEO) aimed at reducing corporate governance (CG) risk partially mitigated by regnant ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.; Nel, Morne
(University of Johannesburg, 2015-04-20)
PURPOSE : This study was motivated by the need to better understand the effects of the global
financial crisis in 2008 on the relationship between company financial performance and CEO
guaranteed cost to company (CTC). ...
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Bussin, Mark H.R.; Modau, Minute F.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-17)
ORIENTATION : The relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) remuneration and
organisation performance has been a topic of close scrutiny, especially since the global financial
crisis. Optimal contracting relies ...
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Bezuidenhout, Magdalena L.; Bussin, Mark H.R.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-12-15)
ORIENTATION : Executive remuneration remains very much at the centre of academic and policy
debates. There seems to be a lack of consensus on the origins of the substantial increase in
executive remuneration.
RESEARCH ...