mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …

experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …

There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and … those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the quot;corruptibilityquot; of bureaucrats in each case …

We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …

their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some input to the non-profit unit, but has opportunity costs in doing so (e …