Special Topics - Economics: Executive Compensation

What's on This Page

Executive compensation is significant for investors in determining the value and opportunity for growth with the organization. Typically, they are a mixture of a fixed salary, bonuses, and benefits where their value and compensation is based on the performance of the executive.


Thinking of Search Term Synonyms

Use search term synonyms to create search statements to narrow down search results to the key terms attached to a library record. The chart below shows related words and phrases for this topic that can be used as search terms:

Concept 1 = Executive Concept 2 = Compensation
CEO employee pay
director pay
managerial salary
president salaries
  wage

Can you think of more terms? Add more terms to your search based on your specific research question, and check out How do I choose good keywords? for more advice. Have suggestions for this synonym chart? Let us know at cirhr.lirbary@utoronto.ca

Learn more on how to Develop a Search Strategy here. 

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Beginning Your Search

Start your search here with University of Toronto's LibrarySearch or use the IRHR Library's curated list of journals and databases below:

  • Database - A curated list of databases related to IRHR to search for journals, abstracts, court and tribunal cases, dissertations and conference papers. 
  • IR and HR Journals - A list of recommended journals available online or in print from UTL about the IRHR industry.
  • IRHR Grey Literature Sources - Search through this broad list of IRHR grey literature sources to find additional.
    • What is grey literature? - Understanding what is and how to use grey literature is important in developing a systemic review of your research topic.

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Executive Compensation Bibliographic Database

Executive Compensation - An external link to the IRHR Library's Executive Compensation Zotero Bibliographic Database. Once this link opens in your browser, you will be able to navigate between different sources in the Executive Compensation collection. Clicking on an entry will bring up it's information panel on the right-hand side of the screen. Double clicking on an entry will open the link to the source in a new tab.

A bibliographic database is a list of resources that "contain references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings and papers, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc." (Feather, J., & Sturges, P. (2003). International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science. In International encyclopedia of information and library science. Taylor and Francis.). The CIRHR Library used Zotero to create this curated bibliographic database. Zotero is a citation management tool that can help you collect, store, organize and cite sources for your projects. Zotero can be used directly within your browser of choice, or downloaded onto your personal computer (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS). There is an Zotero browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. 

Queen's University's Zotero: A Beginner's Guide - An external link with more information on how to get started with Zotero, including how to set up the program and begin filling out your citation lists.

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Research Assistance

Need some help with your research? Are your search results not giving you the information you need? 

  • Develop a Search Strategy - An external link to help you plan your research. Learn how to use Boolean Operators and Search Term Synonyms here.
  • UTL Article FAQs - Understand more about what an article is and how to use it in your research.
  • Scholarly versus Peer-Reviewed Articles - Learn the important difference between the two types of articles.  
  • Research Consultation - Book an online library consultation to discuss how you can effectively use the library resources for your assignments and projects.

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