We use a unique World Bank survey of 1,088 private manufacturing firms from 18 Chinese cities over the period 2000 to 2002 to empirically examine the roles of managerial incentives and CEO characteristics in a firm's innovation activities. We look at both innovation effort (R&D intensity) and...

From the perspective of non-financial performance, this study investigates the effect of corporate awards on executive compensation. We find that as a measure of non-financial performance, corporate awards help increase executive compensation by demonstrating the company’s status in the...

This paper examines the role that managerial equity incentive schemes have on corporate innovation outcomes in developing economies. Utilizing a large and representative sample of Chinese publicly listed firms, we show that while managerial equity incentive schemes have a positive average effect...