The Professional Standards of Executive Remuneration Consultants (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry)

Jackson, Calvin

ISBN 10: 1032078596 / ISBN 13: 9781032078595

Published by Routledge, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Professional Standards of Executive Remuneration Consultants (Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032078596
• ISBN 13: 9781032078595
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Love them or hate them, executive remuneration consultants are key players in remuneration committees’ pay determination processes. This book concerns the professional standards of executive remuneration consultants (and their ‘in-house’ counterparts; for example, Human Resources Director and Head of Reward) in providing remuneration committee advisory services.

The author is a 25-year ‘veteran’ executive remuneration consultant, having worked around the world in this capacity (particularly in the financial services sector). This book is based on a qualitative empirical doctoral research exercise, involving 53 participants in the UK executive pay scene (including regulators, institutional shareholder bodies, proxy advisors, remuneration committees’ chairs/members, executive remuneration consultants and in-house executive reward specialists). The objective was to formulate conclusions that could be used to the benefit of UK practice and contribute to the relevant academic scholarship on executive remuneration consultants.

The research covered 18 aspects, ranging from an examination of the independence of such consultants to whether there might be a specialised accreditation/qualification and/or licence to practise regime covering their services. It provides novel insights into this previously under-researched area of corporate governance/financial regulation.

This book will be of interest to those involved in the UK executive remuneration scene, whether government, regulators or any of the other parties mentioned already (plus academics in universities and business schools). It is hoped too that overseas remuneration regimes that have respects in common with the UK’s will find this book useful.

About the Author

Calvin Jackson is an Associate Research Fellow at The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK. He spent 25 years as an executive remuneration consultant, advising remuneration committees around the world (particularly in the financial services sector). Since retirement from that role, he returned to the Bar for over a decade (with a particular interest in white collar crime and financial regulation).