“…Various studies (Guay, 1999; Coles et al , 2006; Armstrong & Vashishtha, 2012;Olaniyi et al, 2017; Jiang & Zhang, 2018; Rath et al , 2020; Al-Shammari, 2021; Cieslak et al, 2021; Ma et al , 2021; Rehman et al, 2021; Singh et al , 2021; Wu, 2021; Ahamed, 2022; Al'azhary et al , 2022; Omamo et al , 2022; Mohammed et al , 2023) on executive reward of the CEOs have looked into the impact of CEO wealth incentives on risk taking. Although these studies provided evidence of a nexus between compensation and risk taking, the outcomes have lacked consensus on the direction, degree and significance of the relationship.…”