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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China : evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

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The consequences of short-time compensation : evidence from Japan

Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2019

There is a growing body of evidence on the efficacy of Short-Time Compensation (STC), a subsidy to promote worksharing in a recession, in achieving its intended goal of curtailing layoffs and preventing a sharp rise in unemployment. However, very little is known about the consequences of STC for...

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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems : evidence from new Japanese data

Kato, Takao (contributor); Ōwan, Hideo (contributor) - 2007

This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and chaebols in Korea : evidence from new panel data

Kato, Takao (contributor); Kim, U-chʾan (contributor); … - 2005

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the first time panel data (that provide information not only on executive compensation and firm...

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High performance work practices and employee voice : a comparison of Japanese and Korean workers

Bae, Kiu-sik; Chūma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-bae - 2010

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data

Dong, Xiao-yuan (contributor); … - 2007

policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …

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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace : evidence from a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...

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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace : evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao (contributor); Shu, Pian (contributor) - 2008

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China : evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …

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