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What do we know about China's CEO's?: evidence from across the whole economy
Bryson, Alex; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
throughout the economy and include contracts linking CEO pay directly to firm performance, annual bonus schemes, the posting of … performance bonds, and holding company stock. These incentive mechanisms appear to complement rather than substitute for one … another. The elasticity of pay with respect to company performance is one or more in two-fifths of the cases where CEO's have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745536
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Who posts performance bonds and why?: evidence from China's CEOs
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. We show that they are an … important feature in today's CEO labour market in China: around one-tenth of corporations deploy performance bonds and they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126044
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Performance of islamic equity and fixed-income funds during the covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia
Norhamiza Ishak; Aminah Shari; Minah Japang; Fithriah … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
This article discussed the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of Equity and Fixed-Income Islamic unit … as Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen in comparing the 2019 and 2020 performance of Malaysian Islamic fixed-income and Islamic … equity unit trust funds, whilst run (ii) in-depth performance review on Islamic unit trusts using systematic literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373018
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Risk taking and performance in multistage tournaments: evidence from weightlifting competitions
Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071349
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Corporate ownership structure and performance in Europe
Grant, Jeremy; Kirchmaier, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884735
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Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets
Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector … and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of … related to rising pupil academic performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745401
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The paradox of performance related pay systems: ‘why do we keep adopting them in the face of evidence that they fail to motivate?’
Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
significant examples in which its use has been associated with improved performance. A good part of this is to be explained by the … way performance pay links pay and appraisal, and the pressure this puts on line managers to set clearer goals for their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746213
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What do unions do to executive compensation?
Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
not significantly reduce the performance sensitivity of CEO compensation as compared to non-union firms. These results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746287
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Team incentives: evidence from a firm level
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidence from a field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125956
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Employee stock purchase plans – gift or incentive? evidence from a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
performance of the firm and the effort of workers in total. For workers who buy subsidized shares, an ESPP sets up a group … of workers' compensation depend on company performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126459