The extent of stock option remuneration for executives has been strongly criticized due tonumerous cases of balance sheet manipulation in the USA. The (complete) incentive compatibilityof executive remuneration using stock options to the market value of the company is still a controversy.This...

This paper is the rst to empirically analyze the value to shareholders of the power to havea binding vote on management pay. We nd that in response to an unanticipated eventthat made it likely that an annual binding vote would become compulsory for Swiss publiccompanies, the apparent immediate...

The literature is divided in its opinion about the impact of concentration of ownership on firmperformance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentratesmanagement control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problemsassociated with dispersed...

On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expectedto be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompetingexplanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of boardmonitoring is hidden in stock price...

Die allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre hat es nicht leicht mit ihren Sprösslingen Personal und Organisation. Denn weder die eine noch die andere mögen sich in die Konzeption einer (ökonomischen) Theorie des Betriebes einordnen. Dies wird gelegentlich auch für andere Teildisziplinen, wie...

As strategy research has been exploring the dynamic, social and situated nature of the strategy process, so has the role of learning increasingly been recognised as a central feature of strategizing practice. This paper contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of strategizing practice by...

This paper contributes to the literature by introducing the nexus between financial constraints and thecapital-labour uptake and by considering the capital-labour ratio to overcome the problems that haveplagued investment literature -regarding the investment-cash flow sensitivity of constrained...

We address the question of whether hedge fund and private equity investments in public firms are motivatedby corporate governance improvements. As opposed to traditional financial investors both HF and PE arelikely to have the incentives to alleviate agency conflicts. However, against the...

Dies ist die Kurzfassung des Sechsten Berichts des Europäischen Beobachtungsnetzes für KMU. Das Projekt wurde 1992 von der Europäischen Kommission ins Leben gerufen. Ziel des Projekts ist es, einen unabhängigen Bericht zu erstellen, der einen strukturierten und aktuellen Überblick über die...

Die Inhalte dieses Dokumentes sind gültig für die nächsten zwei regelmäßigen Aufforderungen(geplant für 15. Dezember 1999 und 2. Juni 2000), die laufenden unbefristeten Aufforderungenund die gezielten Aufforderungen, die im Jahr 2000 veröffentlicht werden.Eine weitere Überarbeitung des...