Collaborative partnerships create interfirm linkages that potentially tie the fortunes of partnering firms to changing circumstances and decisions of each other. Yet not much is known about how firms in such partnerships are affected by their partners' post-formation decisions outside of...

We develop a model to show how agency conflicts, free rider effects and monitoring costs interact to affect optimal team size and workers' incentive contracts. Team size increases with project risk, decreases with profitability, and decreases with monitoring costs as a proportion of output. Our...

We study the issue to managerial retention by examining the relation between managerial incentives and voluntary turnover. Our analysis uses a unique dataset which comprises of over 3,000 managerial turnovers about a third of which are voluntary. We find that firms that have a higher inequality...

This study examines the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on firms' investment policy, organizational strategy and performance. First, we find that firms with better performance, higher R&D intensity, better financial health, and firms in new economy...

This paper presents evidence suggesting that CEO connections facilitate investments in corporate innovation. We find that firms with better-connected CEOs invest more in R&D and receive more and higher quality patents. Further tests suggest that this effect stems from two characteristics of...

We develop a model to show how agency conflicts between shareholders and managers, information processing and learning about project quality, manager synergies and bargaining power interact to affect a firm's internal organizational structure and the incentive compensation structures of its...

We study the determinants and effects of the relative compensation of top executives and lower-level employees. First, we show that CEO–employee pay ratio depends on the balance of power between the CEO (relative to the board) and ordinary employees (relative to management). Second, our...

We investigate the relation between core specialization, earnings forecast accuracy, and the employment prospects of international equity analysts over the period 1996-2002. Specifically, we address the following issues: (1) Are analyst earnings forecasts more accurate for core stocks than for...