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Prior literature shows that choices regarding board composition are associated with earnings management. We add to this literature by examining the effects of the presence of a foreign board member on earnings management. Using a sample of 3,249 firm-year observations representing 586...
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performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are typically of a vague nature. They derive their value, for instance, from …
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us to estimate the impact of receiving an award on effort. The performance of winners proves to be significantly higher …
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center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow us to estimate the impact of awards on performance. Winning an … award for voluntary work behaviors significantly increases subsequent core call center performance. The effect is short …
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interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
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interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
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This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage...
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interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428141
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479746
In this study, we examine the relationship between within-firm pay inequality and employee productivity. We use hand-collected data on a sample of S&P 1500 companies from 2018-2022 and find a concave relationship between the relative CEO pay and employee productivity. Consistent with tournament...
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