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internationalization on IPO performance of newly listed companies. The samples included 80 international firms listed in Thailand stock …
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This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO’s perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...
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Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences if management is unable to forecast macroeconomic fluctuations or...
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of students pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework …
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We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding …. Separations are more frequent when workers and managers have dissimilar origin, but only before workers become protected by EPL …. We also find that native managers are unbiased in their recruitments of former co-workers, suggesting that information …
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This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender...
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