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Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012

mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …

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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China: evidence from new micro data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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Monetary reference points of managers: An empirical investigation of status quo preferences and social comparisons

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2012

of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a unique panel data set of managers of the German chemical sector …, we find that social comparisons of compensation indeed affect reported job satisfaction. Managers compare their total … similar managers. We find hardly any evidence for the relevance of status quo preferences. …

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Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs

Bell, Linda A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top executive jobs and the effect of women CEOs, Chairs, and Directors on the pay of other women executives. The results show a narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the...

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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison

Kuhn, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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,...

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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...

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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 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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