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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive … corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the …

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Controlling banker's bonuses: Efficient regulation or politics of envy?

Matthews, Kent; Matthews, Owen - 2009

The positive relationship between bank CEO compensation and risk taking is a well established empirical fact. The global banking crisis has resulted in a chorus of demands to control banker’s bonuses and thereby curtail their risk taking activities in the hope that the world can avoid a repeat...

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Risk management and managerial efficiency in Chinese banks: A network DEA framework

Matthews, Kent - 2010

operation and expanded balance sheets. However, the training and practice of risk managers remain second class compared with … two indices are constructed from a survey of risk managers in domestic banks and foreign banks operating in China. The use …

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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012

This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...

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Monitoring to reduce agency costs: Examining the behavior of independent and non-independent boards

Anand, Anita; Milne, Frank; Purda, Lynnette - 2010

Berle and Means's analysis of the corporation - in particular, their view that those in control are not the owners of the corporation - raises questions about actions that corporations take to counter concerns regarding management's influence. What mechanisms, if any, do corporations implement...

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