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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their … managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …, suggesting that the subjective evaluation indeed increased leadership activities and thus productivity. …
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Artificial Intelligence : Robots, Avatars and the Demise of the Human Mediator
Larson, David Allen - 2014
As technology has advanced, many have wondered whether (or simply when) artificial intelligent devices will replace the humans who perform complex, interactive, interpersonal tasks such as dispute resolution. Has science now progressed to the point that artificial intelligence devices can...
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
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Stakeholder Orientation, Managerial Discretion and Nexus Rents
Phillips, Robert A. - 2011
Building on prior research (Phillips et al. 2010), we make explicit the implied assumptions – both managerialist and determinist – in stakeholder research. We argue that three elements – managerial discretion, stakeholder orientation and nexus rent – interact in important and...
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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility
Mion, Giordano - 2017
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964189
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Accountable Managerial Ethics
Subudhi, Rabi - 2016
Since ages or centuries, we have enough examples of unethical practices some people/party, where other parties get affected, at least to some extent. Sometimes bribe giver and receiver do the act with ‘mutual agreement/consent' and they justify the ‘act'. They accept the ‘act' as harmless...
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A Model for Evaluating Pharmaceutical R&D Investment Projects Under Technical and Economic Uncertainties
Pennings, Enrico - 2010
This study sets up a compound option approach for evaluating pharmaceutical R&D investment projects in the presence of technical and economic uncertainties. Technical uncertainty is modeled as a Poisson jump that allows for failure and thus abandonment of the drug development. Economic...
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The Protection of Proprietary Information and Forced CEO Turnover
Lin, Yupeng - 2020
We examine the effect of protection of proprietary information on forced CEO turnover decisions. Relying on changes in the enforceability of the covenant-not-to-compete, we show that strengthening the protection of proprietary information increases the likelihood of forced CEO turnover and the...
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Exchange rate forecasters' performance : evidence of skill?
McDonald, Ronald H.; Menkhoff, Lukas; Rebitzky, Rafael R. - 2009
This paper sheds new light on a long-standing puzzle in the international finance literature, namely, that exchange rate expectations appear inaccurate and even irrational. We find for a comprehensive dataset that individual forecasters' performance is skill-based. 'Superior' forecasters show...
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Priorities and prospect theory
Happich, Michael - 2001
Most would agree that priority setting is necessary to avoid a financial collapse in the health sector. It is much harder to find criteria how to do it. Discussions lead straight to the principles of decision making. But since all theories depend on assumptions given to make them work, debates...
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