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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to overinvest into physical assets. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed to explain this stylized fact, most of them focussing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows that...
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The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …
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We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of … municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This …-atic positive relationship between the degree of structured management and a diverse set of performance measures capturing …
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