Outside Director Compensation in German Public Family Firms

Download or read book Outside Director Compensation in German Public Family Firms written by Pascal Engel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal Engel investigates how outside directors are incentivized in family firms that are publicly listed but still partly owned by members of the founding family. Owning families significantly influence their firms' corporate conduct with their own set of goals, sometimes in conflict with economically driven goals of the capital markets. The author analyzes how family shareholders exert their influence on compensation schemes of outside directors who have the difficult task to protect the interests of family and non-family shareholders. This book provides insights on current approaches of defining a compensation scheme that attracts qualified outside directors but concurrently reflects respective shareholders' preferences.