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bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …
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reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
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financial statements are not used for tax purposes, made it possible for managers of domestically-listed firms to inflate pre …
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This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …
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relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …
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The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
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ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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