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Media Attention & Executive Pay in the Netherlands
Otten, Jordan - 2010
This report is centered around three research questions on newspaper coverage and executive compensation in The Netherlands. 1) How has the coverage developed over the years? 2) How selective are newspapers in their coverage? And 3) What are the influences of newspaper coverage on executive...
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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility
Mion, Giordano - 2017
managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge … the manager has acquired and successfully diffused to the new firm? In order to answer these questions we use information … related to specific activities the manager was involved in when working for previous firms. More specifically, we use …
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge … the manager has acquired and successfully diffused to the new firm? In order to answer these questions we use information … related to specific activities the manager was involved in when working for previous firms. More specifically, we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580556
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Does Obfuscating Excessive CEO Pay Work? The Influence of Remuneration Report Readability on Say-on-Pay Votes
Hooghiemstra, Reggy - 2017
This paper assesses whether reducing ‘readability' is an effective obfuscation strategy for influencing the level of shareholder say-on-pay voting dissent in firms with excessive CEO pay. Based on a sample of UK-listed firms, our results indicate that in cases of excessive CEO pay, a less...
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Regulation of Say on Pay : Engineering Incentives for Executives and Directors – Experiences from the United States and Implications for Regulation in Switzerland
Mueller, Lukas - 2011
The debate about the compensation of executives and directors is a discussion about incentives and agency costs. This article analyzes basic tools to reduce agency costs and also assesses the ongoing debate about the future regulation of the compensation of executives and directors. It draws...
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The Role of Social Proximity in Professional CEO Appointments : Evidence from Caste/Religion-Based Hiring of CEOS in India
Damaraju, Naga Lakshmi - 2018
We test for the role of homophily in the appointments of CEOs in India by empirically examining the preference for same caste/religion CEOs by the largest firms. We find that caste/religion plays an important role in CEO selection. However, the evidence is not consistent with its use as a...
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May Bad Luck Be Without You : The Effect of CEO Luck on Strategic Risk-Taking
Meier, Pascal Flurin; Flepp, Raphael; Oesch, David - 2022
We investigate how luck, namely, changes in a firm’s performance beyond the CEO’s control, affects strategic risk-taking. Fusing upper echelons theory with insights from psychology and behavioral strategy research, we hypothesize that there is a positive association between luck and...
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Resourcing remuneration committees : in the dark or on the dark side of professionalisation?
Shortland, Susan M.; Perkins, Stephen J. - In: Employee relations 45 (2023) 2, pp. 402-420
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The Role of Taxes in Compensation : A Case of Shareholder Expropriation
Florou, Annita - 2009
In this paper I exploit a unique feature of the Greek institutional environment, whereby alternative cash compensation payments to directors are taxed differently from the point of view of both personal and corporate taxes. Board directors can receive cash compensation either in the form of...
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Introduction : Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It
Dorff, Michael B. - 2014
Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies' fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return...
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