We develop a model of joint job search and occupational choice in which job opportunities can be incompatible inside the couple. Typically, incompatibilities may arise because jobs are not in the same location. We show that the existence of incompatible jobs pushes some couples to sacrifice the...

Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career achievement. In our study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career chances. For the first time - to our knowledge - we...

A significant portion of CEOs in publicly-listed Chinese state-owned enterprises receive zero pay from the companies for which they work. Instead, they are paid directly by their controlling shareholder who can be the Chinese government or parent firms controlled by the Chinese government. While...

Protean career orientation is considered as a real driving force to boost meaningful career success of employees. Employees those who have higher order of protean orientation and proactive in behavior are successful than average people. The study aims to provide a theoretical model of protean...

National Basketball Association (NBA) contracting rules provide plausibly exogenous variation in career concerns near contract end. We use this setting to study how individual career concerns affect risk-taking behavior and can sabotage team performance. Using the frequency and duration of...

Career management through corporate education is imperative to the survival of any organization due to the rapid changes in the global economy where business is knowledge-driven. Corporate education emphasizes management strategies and mechanisms for management control, co-ordination,...

A significant portion of CEOs in publicly-listed Chinese state-owned enterprises receive zero pay from the companies for which they work. Instead, they are paid directly by their controlling shareholder, which can be the Chinese government or parent firms that are controlled by the Chinese...

We employ a unique sample of 5000 outside directorships held by German executive bank directors over 1993-2015 to examine whether these directorships proxy reputational capital and/or bankers' private information. We exploit various circumstances of executive directors' appointments and bank...

An effective corporate culture takes a long time to build and requires considerable effort from top management. However, top management can only profit from their investment in building corporate culture if they remain in the same firm. We study how top management’s external and internal...