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Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects

Kaniel, Ron - 2020

Adverse selection harms workers, but benefits firms able to identify talent. An informed intermediary expropriates its agents' ability by threatening to fire and expose them to undervaluation of their skill. Agents' track record gradually reduces the intermediary's information advantage. We show...

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Losers of Executive Promotion Tournaments : Their Incentives, Turnover, and Career Outcomes

Chan, Eric W. - 2019

quality managers are weeded out by the firm, and 2) high quality managers leave because firms are unable to adjust their …

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Promotion, Relative Performance Information, and the Peter Principle

Chan, Eric W. - 2017

I examine the effects of providing workers with relative performance information (RPI) on employers' promotion decisions and the impact of those decisions on worker performance. In my experimental setting, the job after promotion requires higher-level abilities than the current job. I find that...

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Educational Mismatch and Promotions to Managerial Positions : A Test of the Career Mobility Theory

Grunau, Philipp - 2018

Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of promotion and wage growth. We are the first to test the implications of this theory for over- and under-education by means of direct information about promotions to managerial...

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CEOs’ Prosocial Behavior, Their Careers and Corporate Policies

Feng, Mei; Ge, Weili; Ling, Zhejia; Loh, Wei Ting - 2021

This paper examines the associations of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) prosocial behavior with their career paths and corporate policies. Using individuals’ involvement with charitable organizations as a proxy for prosocial behavior, we find that prosocial individuals are promoted to...

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Support on the way to the top? : the effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects

Wanger, Susanne - 2022

Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to...

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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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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers

Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017

-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …

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Nourishing the Potential Pipeline : The Role of Supervisors’ Performance Management Skills in Career Outcomes of Future Leaders

Künneke, Judith - 2020

Supervisors are the linking pin between the organization and its employees, and therefore play an important role for organizational performance and success. Prior literature often considers the link between supervisors and employee performance in their current job. However, the attention is...

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The Careers of Top Managers and Firm Openness : Internal Versus External Labour Markets

Lima, Francisco; Centeno, Mário - 2004

This paper studies the careers of top managers using a large panel of firms. The main objective is to empirically …

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