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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
Robert Maxwell and the institutional weakness of the City of London.
    LSE Business Review
   
(22 Jul 2025).
    
     Blog Entry.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
Activist investors: Alliance Trust and Elliott International.
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 95 - 110.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Sallai, Dorottya 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3411-4818 and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
Business cases: what are they, why do we use them and how should you go about doing a case analysis?
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 1 - 13.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
On what matters: Unilever plc – purpose or performance?
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 57 - 67.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Oddoye, Lauren and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
The collapse of Carillion plc.
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 39 - 56.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 111 - 118.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2025)
The fall of the Maxwell empire.
    
      In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.)
      Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.
    
    LSE Press, London, UK, 89 - 93.
     ISBN 9781911712381
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2024)
CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968-2022.
    Business History.
    
     ISSN 0007-6791
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2022)
The market failure approach to executive pay.
    LSE Business Review
   
(15 Nov 2022).
    
     Blog Entry.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X
  
(2022)
If you’re so ethical, why are you so highly paid?: ethics, inequality and executive pay.
      
    LSE Press, London, UK.
     ISBN 9781909890947
  
  
    Burri, Susanne, Lup, Daniela and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2021)
What do business executives think about distributive justice?
    Journal of Business Ethics, 174 (1).
     15 -33.
     ISSN 0167-4544
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2021)
Liberals, egalitarians, meritocrats, and free marketeers: how business executives view distributive justice.
    LSE Business Review
   
(18 Feb 2021).
    
     Blog Entry.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Willman, Paul 
  
(2020)
UK intra-firm inequality: stock-based pay for CEOs and outsourcing of lower paid jobs.
    LSE Business Review
   
(07 Dec 2020).
    
     Blog Entry.
    
  
  
    Willman, Paul and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2020)
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
    Economy and Society, 49 (4).
     516 - 539.
     ISSN 0308-5147
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2020)
The behavioural economics of executive incentives.
    NHRD Network Journal.
    
     ISSN 2631-4541
  
  
    Willman, Paul and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2020)
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
    III Working Paper (31).
    International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
    
  
  
    Willman, Paul and Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2019)
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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    International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2018)
What do business executives think about distributive justice?
    LSE Business Review
   
(06 Mar 2018).
    
     Blog Entry.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2017)
Redesigning executive pay schemes for transparency and performance.
    Management with Impact
   
(08 May 2017).
    
     Website.
    
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2017)
Applying economic psychology to the problem of executive compensation.
    Psychologist-Manager Journal.
    
     ISSN 1088-7156
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Gore, Julie 
  
(2015)
Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation.
    Journal of Management, 41 (4).
     pp. 1045-1068.
     ISSN 0149-2063
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gosling, Tom and Gore, Julie 
  
(2015)
Fairness, envy, guilt and greed: building equity considerations into agency theory.
    Human Relations, 68 (8).
     pp. 1291-1314.
     ISSN 0018-7267
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X
  
(2015)
The economic psychology of incentives: new design principles for executive pay.
      
    Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK.
     ISBN 9781137409232
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Gore, Julie 
  
(2014)
The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers.
    Journal of World Business, 49 (3).
     pp. 350-361.
     ISSN 1090-9516
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gosling, T. and Gore, Julie 
  
(2013)
Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking: the limits of incentives.
    In: 4th European Reward Management Conference (RMC 2013): Managing rewards: what can we learn from a comparative approach?, 2013-12-02 - 2013-12-03, Brussels, Belgium, BEL.
  
   (Submitted)
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gosling, T. and Gore, Julie 
  
(2013)
Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking: the limits of incentives.
    In: Behavioral economics: at Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler, a two day event on Science, Philosophy and Policy-making, 2013-10-17 - 2013-10-18, University of Trento, Italy, ITA.
  
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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gore, Julie and Crossman, Alf 
  
(2013)
Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating senior executives?
    Human Resource Management Journal, 23 (1).
     pp. 36-51.
     ISSN 0954-5395
  
  
    Shammari, Anwar, Cormack, Jonathan, Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and King, Samantha 
  
(2013)
Measuring the impact of executive development at Standard Chartered Bank.
    Strategic HR Review, 13 (1).
     pp. 3-10.
     ISSN 1475-4398
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2013)
Written evidence given by Professor Alexander Pepper of the London School of Economics and Political Science to the UK Parliamentary Commission on banking standards.
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    Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    
  
   (Submitted)
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X
  
(2012)
Senior executive reward: key models and practices.
      
    Gower Publishing Company, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
     ISBN 9781409458975
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Gore, Julie 
  
(2012)
Towards a behavioral agency theory: new micro-foundations for theorising about executive reward.
    In: SABE Conference 2012 (Society for the Advancement of Behavorial Economics), 2012-07-12 - 2012-07-15, Universidad de Granada, Spain, ESP.
  
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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Gore, Julie 
  
(2011)
Towards a behavioral agency theory: new micro-foundations for theorising about executive reward.
    In: 3rd European Reward Management Conference (RMC 2011): Reward Management in Turbulent Times, 2011-12-01 - 2011-12-02, Brussels, Belgium, BEL.
  
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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2011)
The labour institutions of the London financial markets before and after 27th October 1986.
    In: British Academy of Management Human Resource Management Special Interest Group Research Workshop, 2011-05-05 - 2011-05-06, Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  
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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2011)
The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector.
    British Politics and Policy at LSE
   
(01 Apr 2011).
    
     Website.
    
  
  
    Stylianou, Panayiotis, Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X and Mahoney-Phillips, John 
  
(2011)
Transformational change in a time of crisis.
    Strategic HR Review, 10 (5).
     pp. 28-34.
     ISSN 1475-4398
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gore, Julie and Crossman, Alf 
  
(2010)
Behavioural aspects of senior executive reward systems.
    In: British Academy of Management Conference 2010: Management Research in a Changing Climate, 2010-09-14 - 2010-09-16, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, GBR.
  
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    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gore, Julie and Crossman, Alf 
  
(2010)
Motivated agents: behavioural aspects of senior executive reward systems.
    In: IAREP/SABE/ICABE Conference 2010: A boat trip through economic change, 2010-09-05 - 2010-09-08, University of Cologne, Germany, DEU.
  
   (Submitted)
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X, Gore, Julie and Crossman, Alf 
  
(2010)
Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating executives?
    In: British Academy of Management Human Resource Management Special Interest Group Research Workshop, 2010-04-22 - 2010-04-23, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  
   (Submitted)
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2009)
Book review: business planning for turbulent times: new methods for applying scenarios.
    British Accounting Review, 41 (1).
     pp. 62-63.
     ISSN 0890-8389
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2008)
Was werden wir? Drei Szenarien zur Arbeit im Jahr 2020.
    Internationale Politik, 9 (63).
     pp. 22-31.
     ISSN 1430-175X
  
  
    Pepper, Alexander 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X 
  
(2002)
Leading professionals: a science, a philosophy and a way of working.
    Journal of Change Management, 3 (4).
     pp. 349-360.
     ISSN 1469-7017