Improving executive compensation in the fossil fuel sector to influence green behaviors

The effects of climate change are being felt around the world, and the calls to mitigate are growing louder. In hopes of responding to this call, we examine strategic compensation practices as innovative solutions for tackling climate change. We employ a fixed panel analysis and examine organizational data from an array of global fossil fuel organizations—arguably the principal climate change contributors. Our findings suggest that executive stock-option compensation oriented around a 3-year or more vesting period will enhance organizational green behaviors. The contributions of this study add to the green human resource management literature in offering new perspectives on how compensation practices can enhance green behaviors and clarify key misconceptions related to linking sustainability targets to firm-level compensation schemes.

Rohan Crichton et al, Improving executive compensation in the fossil fuel sector to influence green behaviors, German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (37, 3) pp. 199-220. Copyright © 2022. DOI: 10.1177/23970022221137657. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.

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Work Title Improving executive compensation in the fossil fuel sector to influence green behaviors
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  1. Rohan Crichton
  2. Paul Shrivastava
  3. Thomas Walker
  4. Faraz Farhidi
  5. Vindhya Weeratunga
  6. Douglas Renwick
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  1. German Journal of Human Resource Management
Publication Date November 22, 2022
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Deposited November 25, 2024

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