Board Compensation in Financial Sectors: A Systematic Review of Twenty-Four Years of Research

Saleh F. A. Khatib (), Hamzeh Al Amosh () and Husam Ananzeh
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Saleh F. A. Khatib: Faculty of Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Malaysia
Hamzeh Al Amosh: Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Doha 35111, Qatar
Husam Ananzeh: Department of Accounting, Irbid National University, Irbid 21110, Jordan

IJFS, 2023, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-22

Abstract: We aim to provide a comprehensive systematic analysis of scholarly publications in the field of board compensation in financial sectors extending through the years 1987 to 2021. Hence, the most notable themes, theories, and contributions to the literature are identified, and research developments over time are evaluated. With the identification of a final sample of 87 research papers indexed in Scopus, we identify research gaps to provide insight into future research following a systematic method. The results revealed that the United States of America received the broadest research interest, along with cross-country research. While the literature lacked to provide investigations for other countries of the world. Although the effect of compensation on organizational outcomes (performance and grow) is still unclear in the literature, several factors have been introduced as key drivers of the compensation, including the country’s level of development, the development of equity markets, the development of banking system, its dependence on foreign capital, collective rights empowering labor, the strength of a country’s welfare institutions, employment market forces, and social order and authority relations. On a theoretical level, agency theory has been most popular in the literature, along with providing multiple theoretical frameworks with agency theory as a slack resources theory, managerial talent theory, and managerial power theory. This is the first research to our knowledge that used a systematic review (SR) of literature to give a complete and comprehensive evaluation of the literature on board compensation in the financial sector. The current study documents the flow of literature on the board’s compensation in the financial sectors over 24 years and establishes future research opportunities.

Keywords: corporate governance; board compensations; firm performance; banks; agency theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F3 F41 F42 G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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