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This paper shows that proxy contests have a significant adverse effect on careers of incumbent directors. Following a proxy contest, directors experience a significant decline in number of directorships not only in the targeted company, but also in other non-targeted companies. The results are...
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Executive remuneration is often criticised as being excessive and not clearly linked to firm performance. This study further examines the link between pay and performance by examining the impact of promotion-based tournament incentives. Our hypotheses draw on tournament theory of labour...
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misalignment between managers and the firm, these two purposes are in conflict. This is because the worker with the largest private …: employees that create lower expected profits as managers have yet better promotion prospects. That finding still holds when the … firm owner optimally chooses the promotion rule, the degree of delegation, and wage payments to both employees and managers …
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We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and … managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also … environment is important to the formation and selection of managers …
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We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and … managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also … environment is important to the formation and selection of managers …
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We study how investors perceive the skill set that different types of CEOs bring into their companies. We compare CEOs who started their careers during a recession with other CEOs. We show that the announcement return around the appointment of a recession CEO is very significant and positive,...
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This paper explores the career consequences of the decision to ally oneself with an activist investor/hedge fund in a proxy contest. Using 102 observations where an existing director reveals themselves to be a ‘dissident director' (i.e. agrees to help an activist in a proxy contest against an...
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We test whether a director's diversity relative to the rest of the board explains two important labor market outcomes, retention and promotion. We find that the results are asymmetric across diversity dimensions and outcomes. Retention is more likely but promotion is less likely for...
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As managers approach retirement, their career horizons become shorter and they might start to behave opportunistically … imply that executive compensation contracts need to be appropriately adjusted when managers approach retirement …
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We show that managerial career experiences have significant explanatory power for corporate investment decisions. We use the setting of economic conditions changed from Central Planning to Market Economy, which is an exogenous shock to managerial characteristic, as a natural experiment to test...
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