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Disclosure of operational performance in DSE listed companies : do firm and industry characteristics matter? : a balanced score card approach
Ngole, Shaban; Mabonesho, Ernest - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
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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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2006
performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager's employer. A necessary condition for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268002
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Hidden action, identification, and organization design
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010
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/10010278365
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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
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IFRS adoption and real earnings management in Bangladesh : the role of board characteristics
Hasan, Mohammad Tariq; Hossain, Md. Kaium; Rekabder, … - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
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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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333269
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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away
Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451185
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267652
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Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process
Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022
paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …
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