cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales … managers and thus possibly making China's listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership …This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …

between the past performance of firms measured by return on sales and return on assets, and the likelihood of managerial … ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …

work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has …