How can vice-chancellor compensation be justified? Evidence from New Zealand
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Title
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How can vice-chancellor compensation be justified? Evidence from New Zealand
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Description
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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : The data are available from the authors upon request.
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Vice-chancellors' salaries have been criticised in the media and examined by scholars. Therefore, we examine whether vice-chancellors' compensation can be explained by performance, job size/complexity, and/or the incumbent's characteristics/abilities. Our sample consists of all New Zealand universities' vice-chancellors' pay from 2010 to 2023. We find that university characteristics (higher university rankings, having a medical school, and more students), university governance (larger size of the senior leadership team), and vice-chancellor characteristics (being female, older, and being a New Zealander) are associated with higher vice-chancellor compensation. The prior literature has largely ignored the added complexity of a medical school.
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http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/acfi
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2027-03-20
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hj2024
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Accounting
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SDG-08:Decent work and economic growth
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Creator
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Houqe, Muhammad Nurul
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Marasigan, Alva
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De Villiers, Charl Johannes
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Subject
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Executive compensation
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New Zealand
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Senior leadership team
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Tertiary Education Commission
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University governance
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University raking
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Vice-chancellor compensation
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SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth
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Publisher
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Wiley
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Date
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2025-04-09T13:16:23Z
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2025
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Type
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Postprint Article
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Format
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Houqe, M.N., Marasigan, A. & De Villiers, C. 2025, 'How can vice-chancellor compensation be justified? Evidence from New Zealand', Accounting and Finance, doi : 10.1111/acfi.70019.
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0810-5391 (print)
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1467-629X (online)
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10.1111/acfi.70019
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101982
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Language
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en
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Rights
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© 2025 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'How can vice-chancellor compensation be justified? Evidence from New Zealand', Accounting and Finance, vol. , no. , pp. , 2025, doi : 10.1111/acfi.70019. The definite version is available at : http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/acfi.