Recent studies report an increasing use of nonfinancial measures such as product quality, customer satisfaction and market share in performance measurement an compensation systems. A growing literature suggests that nonfinancial performance measures are better predictors of long-term performance...

Recent research documents the empirical phenomenon of ldquo;sticky costsrdquo; and attributes it to a theory of deliberate managerial decisions in the presence of adjustment costs. We refine this theoretical explanation and show that it gives rise to a more complex pattern of asymmetric cost...

Accounting performance measures such as earnings and cash flows are useful for both valuation and performance evaluation purposes. However, little evidence exists on whether there is any association between these two roles. In this study, we provide large sample empirical evidence that the...

Performance improvements subsequent to the implementation of a pay-for-performance plan may result either because more productive employees self-select into the firm (selection effect) and/or because employees allocate more effort to learn how to perform their tasks better (effort effect). We...

Alternative forms of executive compensation have different incentive and risk attributes and may respond differently to alternative firm performance measures. Various aspects of the interrelations between compensation components and firm performance measures are considered in an empirical model...

This paper uses text parsing analysis on managerial self-disclosure in regulatory Form 10-K and develops a three-dimensional measure of business strategy for a large sample over 22 years. To ensure content validity, we draw the keyword list from prior literature. Adding to the face validity of...

We re-examine the question why large positive and large negative book-tax differences (LPBTDs and LNBTDs) are associated with lower earnings persistence (Hanlon, 2005). Specifically, we investigate whether lower earnings persistence of LPBTD firms and LNBTD firms, relative to firms in the middle...

We investigate the relationship between security breaches and chief information officer (CIO) turnover. Because CIOs are directly responsible for IT performance, we argue that their turnover likelihood is higher when they fail to meet IT performance expectations, as reflected by security...