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Balagopal Vissa
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Guoli Chen
Professor of Strategy
Keywords
CEO Compensation; Family Firms; Emerging Markets; Business Groups; Pay‐Performance Sensitivity
Journal Article
Chen G., Chittoor R., Vissa B. (2021). Does Nepotism Run in the Family? CEO Pay and Pay‐Performance Sensitivity in Indian Family Firms Strategic Management Journal, 42(7), pp. 1326-1343.
Research summary - using a principal‐principal agency theory lens the authors examine corporate governance and compensation design in family‐owned businesses. The authors conceptualize how CEO pay and pay‐performance sensitivity is influenced by whether the CEO is a professional or drawn from the controlling family (family CEO).