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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. -- incentives …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128837
The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …
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The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487017
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278492
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
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It is often claimed that (i) managers work too hard on operational issues and do not spend enough effort on strategic …
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We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmstroem's career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents' unknown ability and the effort they choose. Before making second-period wage offers firms are informed...
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Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple research methods such as the analysis of personnel records, survey data, and lab and field...
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A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the first trade-off. Due to lack of...
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