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analyses based on facts. The aim of this study is to analyse the concept of success of practising physicians and to identify … critical factors of their success based on a theory driven model supported by the empirical data of our survey (FFB …
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viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling … determine which principal characteristics that form the basis for successful school management. We also find a somewhat mixed … picture on what management style characterizes a successful principal. We further show that the scope for principal discretion …
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identified success factors are from different functional areas of the corporate management. Four dimensions of corporate …Which factors impact on the success of agricultural enterprises? The objective of this paper is to identify some of the … management phenomena. The analysis is based on the results of annual financial statements of agricultural enterprises from …
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We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also...
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group of executives. Health predicts turnover, measured at appointment and during tenure. These results are consistent with …
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We study the driving forces behind the positive association observed between corporate investment and stock market valuation, and how they interact with managerial equity incentives and informativeness of investment. We build a dynamic model where managers use investment choices to influence...
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This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study …-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender differences in executives' and their firms' characteristics. Further …. Instead, our results are consistent with the view that male and female executives sharing equal attributes neither have equal …
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A change in executive leadership is a significant event in the life of a firm. This study investigates an important consequence of a CEO turnover: a change in equity volatility. We develop three hypotheses about how changes in CEO might affect stock price volatility, and test these hypotheses...
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younger executive teams increase risk taking, as do board changes that result in a higher proportion of female executives. In … contrast, if board changes increase the representation of executives holding Ph.D. degrees, risk taking declines. …
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