Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to … whether the widely used class of Residual Income based performance measures — such as Economic Value Added (EVA) — is … economic circumstances and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance …

Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to … whether the widely used class of Residual Income based performance measures - such as Economic Value Added (EVA) - is … economic circumstances and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance …

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 …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation. …

affects the performance of firms that increase the power of the incentive schemes. In a laboratory experiment, we let subjects …