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A case study of the implementation of the balanced scorecard in a large local government authority is reported. Based on interview data, the factors that were perceived by senior managers to be important to the success or failure of the implementation are analysed. It is determined that...
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In this study, I summarize the current state of executive compensation, discuss measurement and incentive issues, document recent trends in executive pay in both U.S. and international firms, and analyze the evolution of executive pay over the past century. Most recent analyses of executive...
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are unique to the strategic objectives of a business unit, when making performance evaluation judgments. This study … process accountability (i.e., requiring managers to justify to their superior their performance evaluations) and/or improving … balanced scorecard) increases managers' usage of unique performance measures in their evaluations. Results suggest that either …
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to the strategic objectives of a business unit, tend to be ignored by managers when making performance evaluation … relevance of the performance measures and/or invoking process accountability via a requirement to justify one's performance …
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of risk. The results revealed that the performance subsequent of mergers is not significantly different for the merged … merger transactions signalize a more stable profitability and better performance for the companies with mergers. Furthermore …, merger events signalize different performance levels during and after the crisis: mergers that took place when there was no …
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This study applies the prevailing scholarly theories of strategic management, employment decisions, cost accounting and share reward schemes to a panel of questions raised by Colin Drury (2012) in the case study of the fictitious company Integrated Technology Services (UK) Ltd., ITS (UK). The...
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accounting to performance through the choice of strategy.Methodology/Technique – The method by structural equation modeling on 70 … paper shown that the accounting management directly influence the performance, but not mediated by strategy. The practice of … performance measurement techniques such as the balanced scorecard, measurements based performance, and the economic value added …
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Prior archival studies find that firms that voluntarily adopted clawback policies have experienced a reduction in restatements. I experimentally examine this outcome by investigating the influence of two key factors (i.e., executive compensation structure and auditor quality) on financial...
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We find that firms led by Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) who are relatively more concerned about their future job prospects are less likely to take actions that result in poor discretionary quality reporting during an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In addition, our results show that CFOs with...
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We study the impact of accelerated vesting of equity awards on takeovers, whereby the restricted stock and/or stock options of the target CEO immediately vest and become unrestricted upon the close of the acquisition. We find that takeover premiums are significantly larger when the target CEO...
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