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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study

Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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The Performance of Diverse Teams : Evidence from U.S. Mutual Funds

Evans, Richard B. - 2020

entrenched managers prefer homogeneous teams and the local labor market supply of ideologically diverse managers is constrained …

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3-Year Pay-for-Performance Analysis of the Largest 100 US Companies

Stern, Hermann J. - 2012

This paper is a summary of the findings of analyzing pay and performance for the largest 100 companies from 2009-2011 (3 years). Performance is measured by indexed Total Shareholder Return and indexed Operating Cash Flow Growth. CEO total realized pay is used as the pay metric. The research...

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The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. And Germany from Personnel Data

Grund, Christian - 2021

The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...

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How costly is corporate bankruptcy for top executives?

Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S.; Wang, Wei - 2012

We examine chief executive officer (CEO) career and compensation changes for large firms filing for Chapter 11. One-third of the incumbent CEOs maintain executive employment, and these CEOs experience a median compensation change of zero. However, incumbent CEOs leaving the executive labor...

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Physician-leaders and hospital performance : is there an association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011

-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …

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The Spillover of U.S. Regulatory Oversight to Foreign Markets : Evidence from the Effect of PCAOB International Inspections on Executive Compensations

He, Chang; Su, Lixin (Nancy); Wang, Zheng; ZHU, Xindong … - 2023

We examine the spillover effect of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) international inspection program on improving the contracting role of accounting numbers in executive compensations in an international setting. For a sample of non-U.S.-listed foreign public firms with...

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Investigating the Impact of CIO Competencies on IT Security Performance of the US Federal Government Agencies

Khallaf, Ashraf - 2019

The increased importance of national and IT security for the United States, specifically after the events of September 11, 2001, resulted in the Federal Information of Security Management Act (FISMA, Public Law 107347, Title III) being passed by the Congress in 2002. FISMA requires agency's CIO...

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The Fragility of Organization Capital

Boguth, Oliver - 2018

Firms with high levels of organization capital, a firm-specific production factor provided by key employees, are known to be risky and earn high stock returns. We argue that fragility of organization capital -- its sensitivity to potential disruptions -- is an independently important determinant...

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Worker Runs

Hoffmann, Florian; Vladimirov, Vladimir - 2022

The voluntary departure of hard-to-replace skilled workers worsens firm prospects, thus, increasing remaining workers' incentives to leave. We develop a model of collective turnover in which firms design compensation to limit the risk of such "worker runs." To achieve cost-efficient retention,...

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