.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be … used class of Residual Income based performance measures —such as Economic Value Added (EVA)— is distorted, leading to … and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance measure that elicits …

performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager's employer. A necessary condition for …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

the performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager’s employer. A necessary …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …