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Multiple directorships and managerial ability
Bazrafshan, Ameneh; Hesarzadeh, Reza - In: European journal of international management : EJIM 15 (2021) 1, pp. 146-168
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Trust in management in organizations : employee trust in their managers allows a firm to delegate decision-making, aiding both productivity and profitability
Meagher, Kieron J.; Wait, Andrew - 2023
relationships, in particular trust, allow managers to arrange a business in a more productive way; high-trust firms are both more … profitable and faster growing. For example, if they are trusted, managers can delegate decisions to employees with confidence …
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Price deregulation in sales organizations : an empirical investigation
Hansen, Ann-Kristin; Joseph, Kissan; Krafft, Manfred - In: Business research 1 (2008) 1, pp. 94-104
The allocation of decision rights is an integral component of designing organizational architecture. Economists have long understood the importance of co-locating decision rights with the knowledge that is valuable to those decisions. Following this prescription, marketing scholars have...
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To match or not to match : aspects of marital matchmaking under uncertainty
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; DeAngelo, Gregory - In: Operations research letters 36 (2008) 1, pp. 94-98
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Early versus late effort in dynamic agencies with unverifiable information
Schöndube, Jens Robert - In: Business research 1 (2008) 2, pp. 165-186
In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...
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Earnings management and measurement error
Hofmann, Christian - In: Business research 1 (2008) 2, pp. 149-163
In this paper I consider the impact of a noisy indicator regarding a manager’s manipulative behavior on optimal effort … incentives and the extent of earnings management. The analysis in this paper extends a twotask, single performance measure LEN …. More specifically, the principal uses the indicator variable to prevent earnings management only under conditions where …
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Dynamic agency with renegotiation and managerial tenure
Şabac, Florin - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 53 (2007) 5, pp. 849-864
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Interfirm behavior and goal alignment in relational exchanges
Stephen, Andrew T.; Coote, Leonard V. - In: Journal of business research : JBR 60 (2007) 4, pp. 285-295
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The monotonicity puzzle : an experimental investigation of incentive structures
Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Lukas, Christian; Riechmann, Thomas - In: Business research 3 (2010) 1, pp. 8-35
Non-monotone incentive structures, which - according to theory - are able to induce optimal behavior, are often regarded as empirically less relevant for labor relationships. We compare the performance of a theoretically optimal non-monotone contract with a monotone one under controlled...
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Channel coordination in supply chains with agents having mean-variance objectives
Choi, Tsan-Ming; Li, Duan; Yan, Houmin; Chiu, Chun-Hung - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 36 (2008) 4, pp. 565-576
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