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performance. In particular, he can provide a legitimate excuse, that is, evidence that a poor result is only due to factors … principal to prefer a policy of adjusting ex post the performance measure for the information provided by the agent to a policy …
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The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to examine the disclosure level of operational performance and second; to …, the study uses disclosure index to determine the disclosure level of operational performance and presents the results … using tables. The research reveals that there is high disclosure level of operational performance information at DSE. The …
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performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager's employer. A necessary condition for …
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Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
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Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727777
The adoption of the international financial reporting standard (IFRS) has become an important research topic and received considerable attention from many empirical researchers worldwide. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, it's one of the very few efforts to examine the relationship...
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This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...
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informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …
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