The percentage of S&P 500 firms using multi-year accounting-based performance (MAP) incentives to CEOs increased from 16.5% in 1996 to 43.3% in 2008. The use and design of MAP incentives depend on the signal quality of accounting vs. stock performance, shareholder horizons, strategic...

Contingent capital (coco) automatically recapitalizes the banking system during financial crises if the trigger mechanism is properly designed. We propose a dual trigger mechanism based on: (1) aggregate systemic risk in the banking system, measured using CATFIN, and (2) the individual bank's...

That public policy affects organizational behaviors is well accepted, but less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We investigated policy as a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for understanding the growth of commercial banking in the United...

Previous research has investigated various factors that influence joint venture (JV) termination. Yet the majority of studies do not distinguish between different types of JVs, particularly whether a JV is related or unrelated to the parent firm. Due to their inherent differences, related and...

In order to further develop the theoretical basis of environmental management accounting (EMA), a contingency perspective is used in this paper to explain the initial implementation and design of EMA in firms, based on internalities as well as externalities. Nine variables have been identified...

Contingent capital can automatically recapitalize the banking system during financial crises if the trigger mechanism is properly designed. We propose a dual trigger mechanism that is a function of: (1) aggregate systemic risk in the banking system, measured using CATFIN, and (2) individual bank...

Since supplier insolvencies are a major source of supply chain disruptions, scholars have continuously suggested managing supply chain risk management (SCRM) proactively in order to avoid their occurrence. However, business practice seems to fail with this task. This paper investigates...

By integrating organizational and institutional theories, this paper develops a contingency approach to executive remuneration and assesses its effectiveness in different organizational and institutional contexts. Most of the executive remuneration research focuses on the principal-agent...

Participative management, which appeared during the fifties, seems to bring a new hope and appears today not only as the energy mobilization vector of firms, but also as the key to a better social organization previously endangered by the industrial revolution. Perceived as the entity best...

The potential positive or negative consequence of relationship conflict versus task conflict for group members and organizations continues to be a controversial topic. Whereas a certain amount of agreement exists on the negative consequences of relationship conflict, the evidence for task...