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Determinants of the use of financial incentives in investment banking

Nash, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

This paper examines the use of incentive pay schemes within the financial services sector in London. Various theories of wage determination are reviewed with particular attention placed on the principal-agent literature as a framework for analysing the use of incentive pay. This is combined with...

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Flexible or not? The Comply-or-Explain Principle in UK and German Corporate Governance

Sanderson, P.; Seidl, D.; Roberts, J.; Krieger, B. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

The current financial crisis has given rise to calls to toughen considerably the codes of corporate governance put in place in many countries to regulate corporate behaviour (e.g. the UK Combined Code). These codes vary slightly in form but tend to contain a mix of non-discretionary regulations...

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The Mechanism of Voting Efficiency

Schouten, M.C. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

In the wake of the financial crisis, shareholders are increasingly relied upon to monitor directors. But while much has been written about directors' flawed judgments, remarkably little is known about shareholders' ability to make accurate judgments. What determines whether shareholders make the...

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Understanding Cultural Difference Management through Charles Taylor’s Philosophy: Case Studies from the Food Processing Industry

Ouellet, Samuel Marleau; Facal, Joseph; Hébert, Louis - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 46-70

In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republicanism and common spaces, we look at how...

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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of <i>Administrative Sciences </i>in 2014

Administrative Sciences Editorial Office - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 1, pp. 1-1

The editors of <i>Administrative Sciences </i>would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

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Vaccination Games with Peer Effects in a Heterogeneous Hospital Worker Population

Tassier, Troy; Polgreen, Philip; Segre, Alberto - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 1, pp. 2-26

We develop a game theoretic model to analyze the Nash equilibrium of vaccine decisions in a hospital population with heterogeneous contacts. We use the model in conjunction with person-to-person contact data within a large university hospital. We simulate, using agent-based models, the...

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Developing an Integrated Conceptual Framework of Pro-Environmental Behavior in the Workplace through Synthesis of the Current Literature

McDonald, Faye V. - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 276-303

Recent studies have begun to bridge the gap between general and workplace pro-environmental behavior by adapting specific existing behavioral models to the workplace environment. This conceptual article proposes a different approach by synthesizing the current general and workplace literature to...

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Leading, Following or Complementing in Economic Crisis: A Conceptual Model Illustrating Nonprofit Relationships with Public Schools

Paarlberg, Laurie; Nesbit, Rebecca; Clerkin, Richard; … - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 2, pp. 120-136

Public and nonprofit organizations, entwined in the delivery of public goods and services, are in the midst of challenging economic times. In these circumstances, sound collaborative leadership may help bridge budget and program service delivery shortfalls. In this paper, we examine the...

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Stakeholder Valuing: A Process for Identifying the Interrelationships between Firm and Stakeholder Attributes

Carlon, Donna M.; Downs, Alexis - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 2, pp. 137-154

As firms are creating and recreating themselves as stakeholder corporations, tensions mount between a firm’s fiduciary … duties to its shareholders and the broader responsibilities inherent in a stakeholder focus. Firms have employed several … accounting for stakeholder value through changes in financial reporting. We contend that stakeholders have a financial value to …

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Competition in a New Industrial Economy: Toward an Agent-Based Economic Model of Modularity

Chie, Bin-Tzong; Chen, Shu-Heng - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 192-218

When firms (conglomerates) are competing, not only for the present, with a given population of customers and a fixed set of commodities or service, but also for the future, in which products are constantly evolving, what will be their competitive strategies and what will be the emerging ecology...

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