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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives

Desai, Mihir A. - 2004

This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance, the growth of high-powered incentives for managers, and …

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Executive Compensation : A Survey of Theory and Evidence

Edmans, Alex - 2017

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation. We start by presenting data on the level of CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, the changing composition of pay; and the strength of executive incentives. We compare pay in U.S. public...

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Does Performance-Based Managerial Compensation Affect Subsequent Corporate Performance?

Abowd, John M. - 1989

An effective performance-based compensation system must increase the probability of high performance corporate outcomes in order to justify the incremental expense relative to a straight salary system. A positive relation between current performance and current compensation indicates that the...

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Executive compensation, firm performance, and corporate governance in China : evidence from firms listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2005

managers and thus possibly making China's listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership … restructuring may be needed for China to successfully transform its SOEs to efficient modernized corporations and reform its overall …

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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021

The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …

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Performance pay and applicant screening

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2017

Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is positively associated with applicant screening. By...

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