Pepper, Alexander

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  • Willman, Paul, Pepper, Alexander (2019). The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2015). The economic psychology of incentives: new design principles for executive pay. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gosling, T., Gore, Julie (2013-12-02 - 2013-12-03) Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking: the limits of incentives [Paper]. 4th European Reward Management Conference (RMC 2013): Managing rewards: what can we learn from a comparative approach?, Brussels, Belgium, BEL.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gosling, T., Gore, Julie (2013-10-17 - 2013-10-18) Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking: the limits of incentives [Paper]. Behavioral economics: at Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler, a two day event on Science, Philosophy and Policy-making, University of Trento, Italy, ITA.
  • Shammari, Anwar, Cormack, Jonathan, Pepper, Alexander, King, Samantha (2013). Measuring the impact of executive development at Standard Chartered Bank. Strategic HR Review, 13(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-06-2013-0063
  • Pepper, Alexander (2012). Senior executive reward: key models and practices. Gower Publishing Company.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie (2012-07-12 - 2012-07-15) Towards a behavioral agency theory: new micro-foundations for theorising about executive reward [Paper]. SABE Conference 2012 (Society for the Advancement of Behavorial Economics), Universidad de Granada, Spain, ESP.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie (2011-12-01 - 2011-12-02) Towards a behavioral agency theory: new micro-foundations for theorising about executive reward [Paper]. 3rd European Reward Management Conference (RMC 2011): Reward Management in Turbulent Times, Brussels, Belgium, BEL.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2011-05-05 - 2011-05-06) The labour institutions of the London financial markets before and after 27th October 1986 [Paper]. British Academy of Management Human Resource Management Special Interest Group Research Workshop, Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Stylianou, Panayiotis, Pepper, Alexander, Mahoney-Phillips, John (2011). Transformational change in a time of crisis. Strategic HR Review, 10(5), 28-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/14754391111154878
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie, Crossman, Alf (2010-09-14 - 2010-09-16) Behavioural aspects of senior executive reward systems [Paper]. British Academy of Management Conference 2010: Management Research in a Changing Climate, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie, Crossman, Alf (2010-09-05 - 2010-09-08) Motivated agents: behavioural aspects of senior executive reward systems [Paper]. IAREP/SABE/ICABE Conference 2010: A boat trip through economic change, University of Cologne, Germany, DEU.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie, Crossman, Alf (2010-04-22 - 2010-04-23) Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating executives? [Paper]. British Academy of Management Human Resource Management Special Interest Group Research Workshop, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2009). Book review: business planning for turbulent times: new methods for applying scenarios. British Accounting Review, 41(1), 62-63.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2008). Was werden wir? Drei Szenarien zur Arbeit im Jahr 2020. Internationale Politik, 9(63), 22-31.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2002). Leading professionals: a science, a philosophy and a way of working. Journal of Change Management, 3(4), 349-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/714023848
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  • Pepper, Alexander (22 July 2025) Robert Maxwell and the institutional weakness of the City of London. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2025). Activist investors: Alliance Trust and Elliott International. In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 95 - 110). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.g picture_as_pdf
  • Sallai, Dorottya, Pepper, Alexander (2025). Business cases what are they, why do we use them and how should you go about doing a case analysis? In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 1 - 13). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.a picture_as_pdf
  • Sallai, Dorottya, Pepper, Alexander (Eds.) (2025). Navigating the 21st century business world: case studies in management. LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2025). On what matters Unilever plc – purpose or performance? In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 57 - 67). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.d picture_as_pdf
  • Oddoye, Lauren, Pepper, Alexander (2025). The collapse of Carillion plc. In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 39 - 56). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.c picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2025). The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland. In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 111 - 118). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.h picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2025). The fall of the Maxwell empire. In Sallai, D. & Pepper, A. (Eds.), Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management (pp. 89 - 93). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.f picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2024). CEO pay in the United Kingdom, 1968-2022. Business History, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2024.2430724 picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (15 November 2022) The market failure approach to executive pay. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2022). If you’re so ethical, why are you so highly paid?: ethics, inequality and executive pay. LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth picture_as_pdf
  • Burri, Susanne, Lup, Daniela, Pepper, Alexander (2021). What do business executives think about distributive justice? Journal of Business Ethics, 174(1), 15 -33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04627-w picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (18 February 2021) Liberals, egalitarians, meritocrats, and free marketeers: how business executives view distributive justice. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander, Willman, Paul (7 December 2020) UK intra-firm inequality: stock-based pay for CEOs and outsourcing of lower paid jobs. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Willman, Paul, Pepper, Alexander (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. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2020.1774259 picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2020). The behavioural economics of executive incentives. NHRD Network Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/2631454120953038 picture_as_pdf
  • Willman, Paul, Pepper, Alexander (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. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.qxuyinqio1ud picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (6 March 2018) What do business executives think about distributive justice? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Pepper, Alexander (2017). Redesigning executive pay schemes for transparency and performance.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2017). Applying economic psychology to the problem of executive compensation. Psychologist-Manager Journal,
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie (2015). Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation. Journal of Management, 41(4), 1045-1068. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206312461054
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gosling, Tom, Gore, Julie (2015). Fairness, envy, guilt and greed: building equity considerations into agency theory. Human Relations, 68(8), 1291-1314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714554663
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie (2014). The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers. Journal of World Business, 49(3), 350-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2013.07.002
  • Pepper, Sandy (2013). Auto-enrolment is not the end of the pensions story.
  • Pepper, Alexander, Gore, Julie, Crossman, Alf (2013). Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating senior executives? Human Resource Management Journal, 23(1), 36-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00188.x
  • Pepper, Alexander (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. Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2011). The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector.