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How do Entrepreneurial Bosses influence their Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices?

Rocha, Vera; van Praag, Mirjam - 2016

We adopt a process-based approach to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial bosses on the two main decisions of employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study the push and pull mechanisms possibly underlying...

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Competition and Educational Quality: Evidence from The Netherlands

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond H.J.M.; de Jong, Matthijs - 2009

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large …

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Matching and Winning? The Impact of Upper and Middle Managers on Team Performance

Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015

significance of managers at both organizational levels and illustrate the importance of accounting for match quality in evaluating … manager impact. Our results suggest assortative matching as managerial quality is positively correlated across organizational … levels. Higher match quality in a pairing is further associated with higher individual manager qualities and longer joint …

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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm

de Kok, Jan; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures

Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2008

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts …

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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...

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The corporate calendar and the timing of share repurchases and equity compensation

Dittmann, Ingolf; Li, Amy Yazhu; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2022

This study examines whether the CEO uses share repurchases to sell her equity grants at inflated stock prices, a concern regularly voiced in politics and media. We find that the timing of buyback programs and equity compensation, i.e., the granting, vesting, and selling of equity, is largely...

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Optimal Incentives without Expected Utility

González-Jiménez, Víctor - 2022

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the...

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Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added

Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014

Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based...

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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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