Using an incentivized measure of test for competition, this paper investigates whether this taste explains subsequent gender differences in earnings and industry choice in a sample of high-ability MBA graduates. We find that “competitive” individuals earn 9% more than their less competitive...

We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...

We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...

Jörg Schäfer investigates the influence of family firm specific decision rationales based on socioemotional wealth on vertical and horizontal pay ranges in family firms. Building on a primary data set of over 200 family firms in Germany and applying multiple regression analysis techniques, as...

Vertrauen ist in Unternehmen unerlässlich und Familienunternehmen werden oft mit einem hohen Maß an Vertrauenswürdigkeit assoziiert. Timo Eßer untersucht, ob nicht-finanzielle Ziele die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Familienunternehmen und Nicht-Familienunternehmen in den Augen ihrer Fach- und...

Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen familieninternen und familienexternen Geschäftsführern in Familienunternehmen kann durch Asymmetrien auf der Beziehungsebene belastet sein. In Anlehnung an teampsychologische Forschung untersucht Alisa Pfeiffer, welche sozialen Mechanismen auf die Effektivität...