The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has …

(measured by appointments to top management). First, we confirm the beneficial effect of acquiring general human capital …. -- human capital ; career development ; occupations ; internal promotion ; external recruitment ; top management …

managers and thus possibly making China's listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership …

evidence with external validity on a positive association between working hours and career success (measured by top management … are more beneficial for career advancement. Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them … increase their odds of top management appointments in the same firm, while not in a different firm, while for non …

of directors (employee governance representation, EGR) affect firms' propensity to staff management positions through … likely prefer firms to rely on internal labor markets (ILM) when hiring new managers and (2) conceptualizing the employees …' impact on the staffing of management positions via the efficiency mechanism, related to the positive effects of EGR on the …

are solicited by management; (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square with … management solicitation and enhanced education, but are inconsistent with hypotheses based on Hawthorne effects. …