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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526742
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Do big inequalities in executive pay hurt firm performance?
Chung, Richard; DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024
Research Question/Issue: Do large, within-firm executive pay differences hurt firm performance? Prior literature shows mixed results concerning the sign of the relationship between executive pay disparity and firm performance. This study evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075389
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225948
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487017
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631541
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681440
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Output-based pay: incentives, retention or sorting?
Lazear, Edward P. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The dispersion of employees' wage increases and firm performance
Grund, Christian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In this contribution we examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wages in order to examine for the empirical dominance of positive monetary incentives effects compared to adverse effects due to fairness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485616
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Team incentives and performance : evidence from a retail chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317625
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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008
restructuring may be needed for China to successfully transform its SOEs to efficient modernized corporations and reform its overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759900