Professor Alexander Anthony Pepper

I am a Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics.  I have been teaching and researching on a full time basis at LSE since September 2008.   Prior to this I had a long career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where I held various senior management roles, including as Global Leader of PwC’s Human Resource Services consulting practice from 2002-2006.

       Originally trained as a chartered accountant, my research and teaching interests include organisations and management theory, with a particular focus on people, jobs and pay, especially the impact of incentives and rewards on the motivation of senior executives.  I am also interested in behavioural and new institutional economics, business ethics, and the relationship between management theory and practice.

       My current research projects fall under four related heads:  “Behavioural agency theory”; “Rethinking agency theory; “Inequality and the firm”; and “The ethics of incentives”. I am the author of three books, Senior Executive Reward – Key Models and Practices, published by Gower Publishing in 2006, and The Economic Psychology of Incentives, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015; my latest book, Agency Theory and Executive Pay – The Remuneration Committee’s Dilemma, was published by Palgrave Pivot in November 2018.