increase as managers approach retirement. Earnings persistence is negatively associated to earnings-based incentive rates but …

In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …

Prior research suggests that providing managers with discretion over team bonus allocation can improve team performance … granting managers discretion over team compensation is likely to vary … because it enhances the relation between team members’ contributions to team output and their rewards. This study investigates …

observed individual signals should be aggregated to a commonly observed team signal …

. With group measures, only team success is rewarded, but cooperation is more costly in the higher productive states when the … measures, the principal can replicate the group performance measure or induce competition, and in both cases prefers no …

. The results favor the team perspective under which unilateral shirking is assumed infeasible for managers. The analysis … compensation in S&P 1500 firms, which distinguish between a team perspective and an individual perspective. This approach assesses …-based measures of agency costs. The risk premium can explain up to 37% of total compensation for higher-paid managers in large firms …