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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels, and Tenure : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2013
We investigate two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a firm's long-term wage policy. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns. The second claims that bonuses act as complements to an executive's internal career. Our...
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Support on the way to the top? : the effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects
Wanger, Susanne - 2022
Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to...
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Same same but different : changing career expectations in Germany?
Kattenbach, Ralph; Lücke, Janine; Schlese, Michael; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 25 (2011) 4, pp. 292-312
expectations, job insecurity, and turnover intention among male and female white collar employees and managers. The major finding … is that career expectations remain quite stable over time. Managers and professionals have more positive career …
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Buying to sell : private equity buyouts and industrial restructuring
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2013
We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...
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Volkswagen and Porsche : One Family, Two Car Companies, & a Battle for Corporate Control
Nolte, Heike - 2012
This case provides background material about the takeover attempt of one of the world's largest automobile …
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Das schwindende Vertrauen in die Marktwirtschaft und die Folgen für das Recht
Engel, Christoph - 2009
constitution (unlike the US Lochner jurisprudence) in principle protects economic freedom of managers, firms and stockowners. While …
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Does say on pay matter? : evidence from the German natural experiment
Troeger, Tobias H.; Walz, Uwe - 2016
We analyze a hand-collected dataset of 1669 executive compensation packages at 34 firms included in the main German stock market index (DAX) for the years 2006- 2014 in order to investigate the impact of the 2009 say on pay legislation. First, we observe that the compensation packages of...
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Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei der Aufsichtsratsvergütung (Current Trends in the Compensation of Non-Executive Directors in Germany)
Metzner, Yves - 2012
We document three current trends in the compensation of non-executive directors in Germany. First, firms increasingly use performance-insensitive variable pay components, like committee and attendance fees. Second, this comes at the expense of performance-oriented variable pay components, which...
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Determinants of Director Compensation in Two-Tier Systems : Evidence from German Panel Data
Andreas, Jörn Michael - 2010
Building on a unique panel data set of German Prime Standard companies for the period 2005-2008, this paper investigates the influencing factors of both director compensation levels and structure, i.e. the probability of performance-based compensation. Drawing on agency theory arguments and...
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Does say on pay matter? : evidence from Germany
Tröger, Tobias; Walz, Uwe - 2019
We analyze a hand-collected dataset of 1682 executive compensation packages at 34 firms included in the main German stock market index (DAX) for the years 2009-2017 in order to investigate the impact of the 2009 say on pay legislation. The findings provide important insights beyond the German...
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