This paper considers an employee's retirement intentions and its influencing factors. The role of conflicts that an employee experiences with his/her boss and the role of his/her health status are analyzed using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. Estimation results show that conflicts matter as...

In recent years a new phenomenon has appeared on the retirement savings landscape: the expansion into middle management ranks of a traditional tool of executive compensation, the so-called “top hat” pension plan. Top hat plans are unfunded deferred compensation programs for a “select group...

We study how plan sponsors choose investment management firms from their opportunity set when delegating $1.6 trillion in assets between 2002 and 2017. Two factors play an influential role in choice: pre-hiring returns, and pre-existing personal connections between personnel at the plan (or...

Korea’s Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) market has grown on the back of public funds and is now diversifying its client base into private companies and foundations. As a way to enter the oligopolistic OCIO market, some financial services firms have tried to open up a new niche...

The “tableau de bord” is one of the most used devices to measure performance in French firms. However, its design by controllers remains a difficult task because of the multiplicity of measures and the diversity of users’ attempts and needs. The aim of this research is to analyse the...

Purpose – This paper develops a discussion looking at whether CEO and Executive Director Remuneration have an impact on Firm Performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study entails Australia, The United States of America and The United Kingdom. The data collected is from public listed...

Discontinued operations should reflect a strategic shift of resources that will help to improve future firm performance. A shift of fixed cost allocation from discontinuing or disposing of a line of business is discussed in management text books, and such decisions are complex and affect the...

During the past decade, new regulations have been adopted to improve audit committee effectiveness. Prior research has generally provided evidence in support of these regulations and suggests that a more independent and expert audit committee is more effective. We posit that CEO power reduces or...