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Eyes on the Prize : Do Industry Tournament Incentives Shape the Structure of Executive Compensation?

Islam, Emdad; Rahman, Lubna; Sen, Rik; Zein, Jason - 2020

We investigate whether external industry tournament incentives influence the design of executive compensation contracts. Using staggered negative mobility shocks as exogenous disruptions to tournament incentives, we show that firms treated by these shocks act to restore their executives’...

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The Effect of Board Composition and Managerial Pay on Saudi Firm Performance

Al-Faryan, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh - 2021

Using five empirical methodologies to account for endogeneity issues, this study investigates the effects of board independence and managerial pay on the performance of 169 Saudi listed firms between 2007 and the end of 2014. Studying board independence and managerial pay utilises the main...

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Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance

Horton, Joanne - 2013

Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is...

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Do CEOs make their own luck? : relative versus absolute performance evaluation and firm risk

Wruck, Karen H.; Wu, Yi Lin - 2017 - Current Draft: 10/5/17

Influenced by their compensation plans, CEOs make their own luck through decisions that affect future firm risk. After adopting a relative performance evaluation (RPE) plan, total and idiosyncratic risk are higher, and the correlation between firm and industry performance is lower. The opposite...

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Board of director collusion, managerial incentives and firm values

Andergassen, Rainer - 2011

governance policies, such as managerial pay, and curbing competition. We study a model where managers can exert unobservable cost …

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Do cash-flow performance metrics in CEOs' compensation contracts enhance firm innovation?

Dong, Qi; Cao, Yiting; Dickinson, Victoria; Feng, Hongrui - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 36 (2024) 2, pp. 75-98

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CEO Food Culture and Corporate Innovation

Ting, Hsiu-I - 2019

We analyze the effect of CEO food culture on corporate innovation using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2000 to … culture is positively associated with corporate innovation. The influence of CEOs' food culture and overseas experience on … firm innovation are substitutes to each other. CEO food culture matters in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) than in non …

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Does Managerial Skill Facilitate Corporate Innovative Success?

Chen, Yangyang - 2016

ability and innovative output is weaker for older CEOs and managers who stay in the same job for longer, suggesting a … managers more positively, suggesting that equity holders deem better skilled managers more effective at converting innovative …

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The Exploratory Mindset and Corporate Innovation

He, Zhaozhao - 2020

—promotes innovation. Firms with PhD CEOs produce more exploratory patents with greater novelty, generality and originality. PhD CEOs …

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Female Board Representation, Corporate Innovation and Firm Performance

Chen, Jie - 2018

performance in innovation-intensive industries. Firms with female directors tend to invest more in innovation and obtain more … mechanisms, the positive association between female board representation and corporate innovation is stronger when product market … competition is lower and when managers are more entrenched, consistent with increased monitoring by female directors improving …

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