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Cheat to win : how to hack tournament theory
Arend, Richard J. - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 22 (2019) 4, pp. 216-225
having managers cheat to win. We explore tournament theory to detail its vulnerabilities to various forms of cheating …, we discuss possible ways to address these vulnerabilities to the schemes we rely on to motivate managers to put in the …
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Do regulatory policies on auditing affect executive pay?
Chen, Hui; Jeter, Debra C.; Yang, Ya-wen - In: International journal of accounting, auditing and … 9 (2013) 4, pp. 344-364
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Essays in public economics and social capital
Katuščák, Peter - 2004
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Cash-based bonus plans as a strategic communication, coordination and commitment mechanism
Bushman, Robert M. - 2021
lens of effort incentives-risk premium trade-offs derived from classical principal-agent theory. In contrast, the recent … competitors to assess a firm’s strategic direction, and for investors to hold managers accountable for strategy execution …
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Incentive design and mis-allocated effort : conference paper
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2013 - Preliminary version
paper proposes a theory of incentive design allowing for such distorted behavior. At the heart of the theory is a trade …-off between getting the agent to exert effort and ensuring that this effort is used well. The theory covers various moral …
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Easy Money? Managerial Power and the Option Backdating Game Revisited
Guthrie, Graeme - 2020
This paper presents a model of a firm that backdates the granting of executive stock options in order to maximize actual compensation for a given level of reported compensation. The model is used to estimate the magnitude of the difference between the actual and reported values of option grants....
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Managerial gaming of stock and option grants
Tian, Yisong Sam - In: Financial markets, institutions & instruments 26 (2017) 3, pp. 127-152
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A Game of Thrones – Dynamics of Internal CEO Succession and Outcome
Blank, Brian - 2020
We examine the dynamics of firms' internal succession methods and find that horse race successions are common among the largest U.S. firms. Although heir and horse race CEO candidates are of similar quality, the consequences of these two succession methods differ significantly. We show that...
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Managerial bonuses and subordinate mistreatment
Nikiforakis, Nikos; Oechssler, Joerg; Shah, Anwar - In: European economic review : EER 119 (2019), pp. 509-525
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Board independence and CEO turnover
Laux, Volker - In: Journal of accounting research 46 (2008) 1, pp. 137-171
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