Recent studies in managerial accounting point out that the firms do not fully ratchet up the managers' future performance targets based on their past performance. This study offers a novel theoretical perspective on the firm's executive compensation strategy that supports such latest empirical...

Prior research in management accounting has focused on the pay-performance incentive contracts to examine compensation of top executives. However, the recent economic crisis lessens the validity of the pay-for-performance argument because many executive officers continue to receive a substantial...

We develop a firm-specific measure of the most important intangible asset - organization capital - and document that organization capital is associated with five years of future operating and stock return performance, after controlling for other factors. Thus, our organization capital measure...