Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of...

This paper provides a literature review about the impact of intangible assets on the design of corporate financial and governance policies. Intangible assets show a set of characteristics – namely, high levels of risk and uncertainty, firm-specificity, human capital intensity, low...

Even if leasing is a form of financing whose use is quite widely spread, it must be exercised in a precise legislative framework. Thus, we will present the nature of the leasing operation and the framework for exercising it. Secondly, we will treat the obligations derived from the tripartite...

This study uses a sample of 213 Brazilian firms listed between 1995 and 2004 to examine the effect of the presence or absence of growth opportunities on the subsequent effect of leverage, dividend payout, and ownership concentration on firm value. First, we find that leverage plays a dual role:...

Focusing on employment issues, this paper investigates the impact of government control on state-owned enterprise's (SOE) excess employment, and hence on its performance and the compensation-based incentive mechanism. The results show that the excess employment in SOEs does not result in a...