JORDAN OTTEN

Jordan Otten is currently an assistant professor at the departmant Business-Society Management at the RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He received his PhD at the Utrecht School of Economics at the Utrecht University in 2007. His research interests are mainly (non-) executive pay and corporate governance. His research focusses on international comparisons.

Corporate Governance, corporate control, (non-) executive compensation, board structures

Jordan Otten is universitair docent aan de faculteit bedrijfskunde aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, de RSM Erasmus University. Hij is tevens verbonden aan ERIM, het onderzoeksinstituut van de RSM Erasmus University. Zijn doctors titel behaalde hij aan de Utrecht School of Econimics, de economische faculteit van de Universteit Utrecht. Zijn onderzoeksinteresses zijn met name corporate governance en topinkomens. Naast de beloning van bestuurders behoort de beloning van commissarissen en de structuren van board of directors ook tot zijn onderzoeksinteresses. Zijn onderzoek richt zich met name op internationale vergelijkingen.

corporate governace, de beloning en structuren van raden van bestuur en raden van commissarissen
 
 
 
NEW: special workshop for professionals & executives on executive compensation & corporate governance
 at RSM Erasmus University,  March 2012
You can find more information & sign up for this one day course by following this link:
 
 
 

Publications

See also papers on SSRN author page .

Otten, J.A. (with Marc van Essen and Edward Carberry) 2011 Assessing managerial power theory: A meta-analytic approach to understanding the determinants of CEO compensation. Forthcoming Journal of Management (paper available on request)
 
Otten, J.A (with Marc van Essen, Pursey Heugens and Hans van Oosterhout) 2011 An institutional-based view of executive compensation; A multilevel meta-analytic test. Best paper in OM/ HRM/ OT International Management Devision, Acdemy of Managment 2011 (paper under review, available on request)  
 
Otten, J.A. (2009) Media attention & executive pay in The Netherlands, download paper at BePress Selected Works or  at EITC reserch series 13
 
Otten, J.A. 2008 (with Pursey Heugens) The managerial power theory of executive pay: A cross-national test and extension. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 2008

Otten, J.A. 2008 (with Pascual Berrone) A global perspective on executive compensation, in Gomez-Mejia and Werner eds Global Compensation Foundations and perspectives, Routledge. (global perspective executive compensation.pdf)

Otten, J.A. (2008) Executive pay's faulty market. European Business Forum. 32 : 8-9. (download article in pdf)

Otten, J.A. (2007) (with Pursey Heugens) Beyond the dichotomous world hypothesis: towards a plurality of corporate governance logics.Corporate governance: An international review. 15 (6): 1288-1300 (download corporate governance logics in pdf)

Otten, J.A. (2007) Origins of executive pay and corporate governance reform codes. Essays on an institutional approach to corporate governance. Dissertation, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University.  Supervisors  Prof. dr. Hans Schenk  and dr. Pursey Heugens, reading committee Prof . dr. Harry Garretsen, Prof dr. Gerard Mertens, Prof dr. Brigitte Unger, Prof. dr. Gerrit de Geest, Prof dr. Andrew Millington. (download Origins of executive pay and corporate governance reform codes  or to get a very short impression, download the backside cover of the thesis in pdf).

 

Working papers
 
Otten, J.A. (2010) (with Stephen Sapp) Market forces, CEO power, and industry norms as constrains on CEO compensation. Taking inventory of competing theoretical perspectives using quantile regression techniques. (Working paper).
 
Otten, J.A. (2007) (with Pursey Heugens) Extendng the managerial power theory of executive pay: A cross-national test.  Working paper (download at www.erim.nl or  via SSRN)    
 
Otten, J.A. (2007) Theories on executive pay. A literature overview and critical assessment. working paper (theories executive pay overview pdf or via SSRN)
 
Otten, J.A. (2006) (with Pursey Heugens and Hans Schenk) Corporate governance reforms and firm ownership around the world. Paper under review (download previous version at  www.econ.uu.nl or directly corporate goverance reforms and firm ownership.pdf )
 
Otten, J.A. (2005) (with Pursey Heugens) Corporate governance reforms around the world. Utrecht School of Economics & Tjalling C. Koopmans research institute. working paper, series number 05-08. (Download from www.econ.uu.nl or directly corporate governance reforms.pdf)   

Otten, J.A. (with Marc van Essen, Hans van Oosterhout and Stephen Sapp) Determinants of non-executive pay, a cross-country analysis. working paper 

Otten, J.A. (with Ben Wempe) Corporate governance and the politics of agency theory. (working paper). 

 

Publications in Dutch

Otten, J.A. 2011 Beloning van bestuurders en media-aandacht: Signalen en implicaties voor Raden van Commissarissen, beleidsmakers en journalisten. Te verschijnen in Jaarboek Corporate Governance november 2011. 
 
Otten, J.A. (met Hans Schenk en Arjen Verwer) (2008) De code Tabaksblat en de beloning van CEO's in Nederland.  Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, 82(10), 445-452.  (Tabaksblat beloning bestuurders Nederland.pdf)

Otten, J.A. (met Hans van Oosterhout) (2008) Bestuurdersbeloning: Ideologie, Symboliek of Instrument van Corporate Governance? Ondernemingsrecht 8, 290-296.  (Bestuurdersbeloning: Ideologie, Symboliek of Instrument.pdf)

Otten, J.A. (2007) Symboolpolitiek en topinkomens, Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB), 92 (4512), 372-374 (symboolpolitiek topinkomens ESB pdf)

 

Other

Winner International Management Division best paper award in OB/ HRM / OT , Academy of Management 2011
 
Nominee Carolyn Dexter Award, all Academy Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management 2008 

Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staatshuishoudkunde (KvS) Jaarboeken 2003/2004, 2005/2006, 2007/2008 & 2009/2010  (Redactie secretariaat).

Stellingen behorende bij het proefschrift Origins of executive pay and corporate governance reform codes stellingen.pdf.  

 

My research in the media

International Media:

International Herald Tribune (September 2009; May 2008) , The New York Times (September, 2009), IESE Insight (June 2008), Emirates Business 24/7 (Juli 2008), Oman Economic Review (August 2008), The New York Times Syndicate, Economist Intelligence Unit (News site from The Economist in partnership with Harvard Business School Publishing)

Dutch Media:

Algemeen Dagblad, FEM-Business, het Financieele Dagblad,  Nederlands Dagblad, NOS Radio 1 journaal "langs de lijn", NRC Handelsblad, PM (Public Management), de Telegraaf, de Volkskrant.

 

Other academic activities

Member of the managing board of the Tjalling C. Koopmans research institute (website of the institute), the research institute of the Utrecht School of Economics (www.econ.uu.nl)  (from 2002-2006)

Redactie secretariaat KVS jaarboeken 2003-2010

Member of the Academy of Management & International Association of Business & Society (IABS)

Member Erasmus Institute Monitoring and Compliance  (www.toezichtencompliance.nl) 

 

Interesting links

Overzicht beloning bestuurders VEB website

www.corpgov.nl

www.topsalaris.nl

 

Links to friends

 

Marc van Essen (http://works.bepress.com/marc_vanessen/)

Contact details

through my employer www.rsm.nl or www.erim.nl

or send an e-mail to jordanotten@gmail.com

  last updated october 2011

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