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Reputation, tenure and compensation of independent audit committee members and financial restatements

Sharma, Vineeta D; Iselin, Errol R - 2006

We investigate the association between the reputation, tenure and cash compensation of independent audit committee … (ii) the cash compensation paid to independent audit committee members. Our results suggest that independent audit … financial statements are of high quality. Our findings on compensation suggest that monetary incentives motivate independent …

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For The Many of The Few?

Wong, Wai Kin - 2011

Recent studies [Bebchuk and Fried (2002)] have shown that managerial power and negotiations play important roles in the design of executive pay arrangements, suggesting that some CEOs may extract greater economic rent from shareholders when provided with the opportunity. This paper seeks to...

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Activist Investor Impact on CEO Compensation of Investment Targets

Zacharias, Eric - 2010

This paper examines the “activist effect” on the levels and structures of CEO compensation when a company is targeted … why compensation changes are a logical focus for extension of the previous research. The study is based on a sample of … in total CEO compensation achieved through a change in compensation structure. …

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Incentives in Professional Tennis: Tournament Theory and Intangible Factors

Silverman, Joshua; Seidel, Steven - 2011

This paper analyzes the incentives of professional tennis players in a tournament setting, as a proxy for workers in a firm. Previous studies have asserted that workers exert more effort when monetary incentives are increased, and that effort is maximized when marginal pay dispersion varies...

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Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Köll?, János - 2004

While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...

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Returns to Managerial and Technical Competencies of IT Professionals: An Empirical Analysis

Mithas, Sunil - 2004

professionals in the non-profit and governmental sector receive less compensation compared to their counterparts in the for … inequalities on the basis of gender and male IT professionals receive 7.8% more in total compensation than their female …

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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance

Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003

In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...

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Corporate Ethics and CEO Compensation

Mack, Martin - 2008

Corporate ethics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation will be forever linked together. The dramatic increase …. The connection between these two topics led me to explore how executive compensation plans are designed and how ethics …’s compensation. I also examine how profitable a company is with an ethical CEO compared to a company with an unethical CEO. The …

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Determinants of CEO Compensation

Khanna, Vivek - 2016

Officer (CEO) duality and management pattern on CEO compensation. The final sample for the study comprises of a total of 300 … relationship. Further, no relationship is found between CEO duality and compensation. The findings of the study are discussed and …

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Motivating employees for long term company success

Lewis, Kyle (contributor) - 2010

There have been many recent examples in the news of how employees were motivated by their companies to take actions that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in...

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