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Paying with Self-Chosen Goals : Incentives and Gender Differences

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Noussair, Charles; Gonzalez … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Abstract: To boost employees’ performance, firms often offer monetary bonuses when production goals are reached. However, the evidence suggests that the particular level of a goal is critical to the effectiveness of this practice. Goals must be challenging yet achievable. Computing optimal...

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Budget Setting Strategies for the Company's Divisions

Brekelmans, Ruud; De Waegenaere, Anja; Berg, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

The paper deals with the issue of budget setting to the divisions of a company. The approach is quantitative in nature both in the formulation of the requirements for the set-budgets, as related to different general managerial objectives of interest, and in the modelling of the inherent...

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The Usefulness of the Most Widely Reported Dutch Financial Statement Numbers to Stock Market Investors

Kabir, M.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

Much of the literature on the usefulness of company financial statement information focuses on the United States and the United Kingdom. But, these two countries are characterized by similar and rigid regulatory and enforcement regime. This study provides direct evidence from the Netherlands –...

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Royal Ahold : A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal

de Jong, A.; DeJong, D.V.; Mertens, G.M.H.; Roosenboom, … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Royal Ahold (Koninklijke Ahold NV) was one of the major success stories in the 1990s and is one of the major failures, suffering a complete meltdown, in 2003.We investigate the strategy, accounting transparency and corporate governance of Ahold; elements which jointly drive the firm s performance...

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Understanding Internal Capital Markets and Corporate Policies

Cremers, M.; Huang, R.; Sautner, Z. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

This study looks inside a large retail-banking group to understand how corporate politics affect internal capital allocation. The group consists of a headquarters organization and about 150 member banks which own the headquarters. Our data is from the firm’s managerial accounting system and...

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Search for a New Conceptual Bookkeeping Model : Different Levels of Abstraction

Groenendaal, Willem van; Sweere, A.M.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

Nowadays, every bookkeeping system used in practice is automated. Most bookkeeping software and integrated information systems are based on databases. In this paper, we develop a new conceptual bookkeeping model which is not based on manual techniques, but which is applicable in a database...

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Firm Culture and Leadership as Firm Performance Predictors : a Resource-Based Perspective

Wilderom, C.P.M.; van den Berg, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

In this study, we tested part of the resource-based view of the firm by examining two 'soft' resources, firm culture and top leadership, as predictors of 'hard' or bottom-line firm performance.Transformational top leadership was found to predict firm performance directly while the link between...

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Decentralization, Interdependence and Performance Measurement System Design : Sequences and Priorities

Bouwens, Jan; Abernethy, M.; van Lent, L.A.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We investigate the determinants of decentralization and performance measurement choices in multidivisional firms.We extend the research on the economics of organizational design choices by examining the impact of two important determinants of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and...

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Bonus Schemes and Trading Activity

Renneboog, Luc; ter Horst, Jenke; Pikulina, E.S.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: Little is known about how different bonus schemes affect traders’ propensity to trade and which bonus schemes … improve traders’ performance. We study the effects of linear versus threshold (convex) bonus schemes on traders’ behavior … traders trade more intensively (the number of transactions augments) under the threshold than under the linear bonus scheme …

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Immigration, Endogenous Technology Adoption and Wages

Ray Chaudhuri, A.; Pandey, Manish - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

We document that immigration to U.S. states has increased the mass of workers at the lower range of the skill distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows firms to endogenously respond to the immigration-induced...

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