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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes - 2011
mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128837
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Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
Bhattacharya, Dhritiman - 2011
cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120407
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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina - 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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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 … behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238644
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Giuliano, Laura M. - 2011
employees are hired under Hispanic and non-Hispanic, white managers, and then examine the effects of manager-employee ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131166
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Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater : Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University
Okunade, Albert A. - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
past performance to the group, and in the reaction to monetary incentives. We find that men's overconfidence is the driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132524
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African Leaders : Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135190
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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation : An International Comparison
Kuhn, Andreas - 2010
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of individuals (more than 90%) believes that top executives earn more than they actually deserve. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135826
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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2010
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136492