“…In the academic arena, although there is abundant literature on CEO compensation (for a review of the subject see Finkelstein et al, 2009;Murphy, 2013;Seo, 2015;Aguinis et al, 2018, or Vo & Canil, 2019, little research has been done on the factors that explain the levels of compensation of the members of the board of directors since, as some authors point out (Brick et al, 2006, or Andreas et al, 2012, this issue has only begun to attract attention more recently.…”