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Activist Investor Impact on CEO Compensation of Investment Targets

Zacharias, Eric - 2010

This paper examines the “activist effect” on the levels and structures of CEO compensation when a company is targeted … why compensation changes are a logical focus for extension of the previous research. The study is based on a sample of … in total CEO compensation achieved through a change in compensation structure. …

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Incentives in Professional Tennis: Tournament Theory and Intangible Factors

Silverman, Joshua; Seidel, Steven - 2011

This paper analyzes the incentives of professional tennis players in a tournament setting, as a proxy for workers in a firm. Previous studies have asserted that workers exert more effort when monetary incentives are increased, and that effort is maximized when marginal pay dispersion varies...

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Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Köll?, János - 2004

While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...

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Returns to Managerial and Technical Competencies of IT Professionals: An Empirical Analysis

Mithas, Sunil - 2004

professionals in the non-profit and governmental sector receive less compensation compared to their counterparts in the for … inequalities on the basis of gender and male IT professionals receive 7.8% more in total compensation than their female …

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Transparency in Complex Compensation Systems

Möller Quintanar, Ana - In: Junior Management Science (JUMS) 7 (2022) 1, pp. 185-200

complex compensation systems, on the comparisons employees draw between each other. To do so, an overview of compensation … compensation system. In a first scenario, where employees pose as fully rational actors, full pay transparency presents positive … biases, the compensation system is perceived as inequitable, other things equal. Concluding, full pay openness does not …

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Gamification for sales incentives

Woźniak, Jacek - In: Contemporary Economics 14 (2020) 2, pp. 144-161

Gamification as the use of game mechanisms for motivation in non-game contexts has been gaining popularity and is considered one of the hottest topics in management. However, there is little research on gamification in remuneration systems, especially with regard to the sales force. The article...

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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Employer market power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2024

Adam Smith alleged that employers often secretly combine to reduce labor earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: illegal no-poaching agreements through which information-technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly...

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Corporate Ethics and CEO Compensation

Mack, Martin - 2008

Corporate ethics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation will be forever linked together. The dramatic increase …. The connection between these two topics led me to explore how executive compensation plans are designed and how ethics …’s compensation. I also examine how profitable a company is with an ethical CEO compared to a company with an unethical CEO. The …

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Determinants of CEO Compensation

Khanna, Vivek - 2016

Officer (CEO) duality and management pattern on CEO compensation. The final sample for the study comprises of a total of 300 … relationship. Further, no relationship is found between CEO duality and compensation. The findings of the study are discussed and …

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