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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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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...

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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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Output-based pay: incentives, retention or sorting?

Lazear, Edward P. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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 …

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Management compensation and the economic crisis : longitudinal evidence from the German chemical sector

Grund, Christian; Hofmann, Tanja - 2013

extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards … perspective. We also examine that certain parts of managers seem to have more power to influence their compensation than others …. Inequality in managers' compensation decreased during the crisis. …

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Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals : compensation components do matter

Grund, Christian - 2014

Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people...

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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...

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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...

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

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