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This paper shows that long-term shareholders embed horizon incentives in executive compensation contracts as a mechanism to promote long-term oriented managerial behavior. Increases in long-term institutional ownership lead to longer equity vesting periods measured by CEO pay duration. Further,...
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This study empirically investigates two effects of alternative data availability: stock price informativeness and its disciplining effect on managers' actions. Recent computing advancements have enabled technology companies to collect real-time, granular indicators of fundamentals to sell to...
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This study sought to evaluate the imperatives of effective management decision making on operational effectiveness in … Nigeria. Despite different models of decision making on effective management decision incorporates problem identification …; data gathering, communication, ethical standards, management commitment and implementation. There is evidence in the …
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of effective international management in the past 125 years and remains one of the most profitable banking enterprises on … the African Continent. In the process of international management the bank produced great managers including Mr. John … regression statistical methods and the result showed positive correlation between international management and sustainable …
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of agency theory in the late 1970s and early 1980s challenged this understanding of management. Arguing that markets … societies and has created worse management and less competitive companies. It is ironic that the obsession with MSV has actually … past 30 years.We provide this Summary of certain fundamentals of management in an effort to help prevent analytical errors …
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A growing literature studies the importance of top managers for firm policies and performance. We revisit the foundations of this literature by replicating and extending the analysis of Bertrand and Schoar (2003), who used manager fixed effects to provide evidence for the existence of managerial...
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Executive management as a distinct occupational category from general management seems to be becoming increasingly …
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We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …
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We contribute to the extensive literature on earnings management by examining the impact of earnings management … associated with more accrual earnings management, less real earnings management, and better mapping of accruals into cash flows …. Boards of directors reward this behaviour with better compensation under the perception that accrual earnings management is …
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