.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be … used class of Residual Income based performance measures —such as Economic Value Added (EVA)— is distorted, leading to … and the self-selection of firms using EVA. Our findings indicate that EVA is a distorted performance measure that elicits …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts … noise and distortion of a performance measure can be measured. Courty and Marschke (2007) have recently developed an elegant … empirical test to detect distortion, based on the degradation of a performance measure subsequent to increasing its weight in …

informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in a …