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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition

Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999

and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives …, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The interviews elicited information on the motives for adopting TQM, the …

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Communication within Firms : Evidence from CEO Turnovers

Impink, Stephen Michael; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper uses novel, firm-level measures derived from communications metadata before and after a CEO transition in 102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a...

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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

Repenning, Nelson P. - 2010

Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers" --delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments--makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism"...

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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Guzman, Jorge - 2015

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...

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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : An Empirical Analysis

Morck, Randall - 1986

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a...

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Understanding the Determinants of Managerial Ownership and the Link Between Ownership and Performance

Himmelberg, Charles P. - 2000

Both managerial ownership and performance are endogenously determined by exogenous (and only partly observed) changes in the firm's contracting environment. We extend the cross-sectional results of Demsetz and Lehn (1985) and use panel data to show that managerial ownership is explained by key...

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Empire-Builders and Shirkers : Investment, Firm Performance, and Managerial Incentives

Aggarwal, Rajesh K. - 1999

shareholders and managers in which managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. Managers overinvest when they …, in isolation, is insufficient to identify whether managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. In order … to identify whether managers have private benefits or costs, we estimate the joint relationships between incentives and …

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Executive Compensation : Six Questions that Need Answering

Abowd, John M. - 1999

In this article, we focus on how recent research advances can be used to address the following six questions: (1) How much does executive compensation cost the firm? (2) How much is executive compensation worth to the recipient? (3) How well does executive compensation work? (4) What are the...

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Compensation and Firm Performance

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1987

This paper uses stochastic simulation and my U.S. econometric model to examine the optimal choice of monetary policy instruments. Are the variances, covariances, and parameters in the model such as to favor one instrument over the other, in particular the interest rate over the money supply? The...

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The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes

Kala, Namrata - 2019

Enterprises (SOEs) in India. The program gave managers (the board of directors) of profitable SOEs more autonomy over strategic … that a manager subsequently joins a board of a private firm is greater for managers of those SOEs which were granted … may occur partly through managers' career concerns …

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