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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their … managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …, suggesting that the subjective evaluation indeed increased leadership activities and thus productivity. …
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580556
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Stakeholder Orientation, Managerial Discretion and Nexus Rents
Phillips, Robert A. - 2011
Building on prior research (Phillips et al. 2010), we make explicit the implied assumptions – both managerialist and determinist – in stakeholder research. We argue that three elements – managerial discretion, stakeholder orientation and nexus rent – interact in important and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132503
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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility
Mion, Giordano - 2017
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964189
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Accountable Managerial Ethics
Subudhi, Rabi - 2016
Since ages or centuries, we have enough examples of unethical practices some people/party, where other parties get affected, at least to some extent. Sometimes bribe giver and receiver do the act with ‘mutual agreement/consent' and they justify the ‘act'. They accept the ‘act' as harmless...
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The Protection of Proprietary Information and Forced CEO Turnover
Lin, Yupeng - 2020
We examine the effect of protection of proprietary information on forced CEO turnover decisions. Relying on changes in the enforceability of the covenant-not-to-compete, we show that strengthening the protection of proprietary information increases the likelihood of forced CEO turnover and the...
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A quantitative analysis of distortions in managerial forecasts
Ropele, Tiziano; Ma, Yueran; Sraer, David; Thesmar, David - 2020
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Executive compensation : an academic's perspective
Pennings, Joost M. E. - In: The compensation handbook : a state-of-the-art guide to …, (pp. 349-364). 2008
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CEO overconfidence and dividend policy
Deshmukh, Sanjay; Goel, Anand M.; Howe, Keith M. - 2009
We develop a model of the effect of CEO overconfidence on dividend policy and empirically examine many of its predictions. Consistent with our main prediction, we find that the level of dividend payout is lower in firms managed by overconfident CEOs. We document that this reduction in dividends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892557
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Do markets care who chairs the central bank?
Kuttner, Kenneth N.; Posen, Adam Simon - 2007
This paper assesses the effects of central bank governor appointments on financial market expectations of monetary policy. To measure these effects, we assemble a new dataset of appointment announcements from 15 countries, and conduct an event study analysis on exchange rates, bond yields, and...
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