Exit strategy or springboard for career development? The case of university executives' remuneration

  • The steady increase of chief executives' compensation in both public and private universities has long been at the centre of public debate and has received a lot of criticism in the UK. As higher education is considered as an industry, a pay for performance relationship is expected. This paper differs by demonstrating that UK Vice Chancellors consider incentives other than remuneration in their career progression. By constructing a comprehensive dataset of UK Vice Chancellors covering academic years 2012/2013 to 2016/2017, we demonstrate that UK university chief executives, especially if young, are willing to accept lower salaries when they interpret their role as a springboard for visible high-profile positions in the public arena.

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Author:Alice Civera, Erik E. LehmannORCiDGND, Michele Meoli, Jonah M. OttoGND, Stefano Paleari
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/109831
ISSN:0951-5224OPAC
ISSN:1468-2273OPAC
Parent Title (English):Higher Education Quarterly
Publisher:Wiley
Place of publication:Weinheim
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2023
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2023/12/06
Tag:Education
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12482
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre / Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensführung und Organisation
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Latest Publications (not yet published in print):Aktuelle Publikationen (noch nicht gedruckt erschienen)
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)

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