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Lean Implementation and Managerial Ability-Evidence from the Healthcare Industry

Zhang, Huilan - 2018

hospital decision makers and researchers as they assess the benefits of lean implementation and managerial ability …

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Bridging the Gap : Evidence from Externally Hired CEOS

Ertimur, Yonca - 2018

We investigate executive employment gaps (hereafter, gaps) between the appointment of an external CEO at a public firm and the individual's prior executive position at a public company. These gaps cannot be reliably obtained from common databases. We hand‐collect data for externally hired CEOs...

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CEO Early-Life Disaster Experience and Stock Price Crash Risk

Chen, Yangyang - 2020

An emerging stream of research documents that experience of traumatic events early in a CEO's life influences the firm's investment and financing choices. We extend this research by examining the impact of CEO early-life natural disaster experience on stock price crash risk. Using a longitudinal...

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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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Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance and Earnings Management in an Emerging Market

Sheikh, Muhammad Fayyaz - 2017

We examine how compensation of chief executive officer (CEO) and corporate governance practices affect earnings management behavior in an emerging economy, Pakistan. Using 1836 firm-year observations from 260 firms listed in KSE for period 2005 to 2012, we do not find that CEO compensation has...

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Do High CEO Pay Ratios Destroy Firm Value?

Cheng, Qiang - 2017

extraction. In this paper, we use a proprietary dataset to examine the relationship between CEO pay ratio and firm value/performance … and performance. We also find that high CEO pay ratios are associated with higher quality acquisitions and stronger CEO … turnover-performance sensitivity. Our results challenge the notion that high CEO pay ratios are on average economically harmful …

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Accounting Conservatism and Managerial Risk-Taking : Corporate Acquisitions

Kravet, Todd D. - 2014

Watts (2003) and Ball and Shivakumar (2005) argue that accounting conservatism decreases managerial incentives to make negative net present value investments. I develop and test a new hypothesis that accounting conservatism is associated with managers making less risky investments. I find that...

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The Determinants of Multiple Forms of Controls in Foreign Subsidiary Manager Evaluations

Kihn, Lili-Anne - 2009

manager performance evaluations. Possible impacts of the following factors are analyzed: extent of geographical dispersion …

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Earning Management, Corporate Governance and CEOs Optimism : Evidence from NYSE Panel Data

Baccar, Amel; Ben Mohamed, Ezzeddine; Bouri, Abdelfatteh - 2013

The aim of this paper is to explain relationship between earning management, corporate governance and managerial optimism through the governance characteristics that are board of directors such as independence, duality and size and ownership structure such as managerial participation, block...

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The Structure and Performance Consequences of Equity Grants to Employees of New Economy Firms

Ittner, Christopher D.; Lambert, Richard A.; Larcker, … - 2011

The paper examines the determinants and performance consequences of equity grants to senior-level executives, lower …. Our exploratory performance tests indicate that lower than expected grants and/or existing holdings of options are … associated with poorer performance in subsequent years …

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