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Person-Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test

Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We investigate the effects of organizational culture and personal value orientations on performance under individual and team contest incentives. We develop a model of regard for others and in-group favoritism predicting interaction effects between organizational culture and personal values in...

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Globalization of Monitoring Practices: The Case of American Influences on the Dismissal Risk of European CEOs

Oxelheim, Lars; Randoy, Trond - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This study examines globalization of monitoring practices by focusing on how American (U.S.) influences on European firms impact the dismissal risk for these firms' CEOs. Specifically, we argue that the stronger short term orientation of the American corporate governance system increase the...

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Globalization of Corporate Covernance: The American Influence on Dismissal Performance Sensitivity of European CEOs

Jungeilges, Jochen A.; Oxelheim, Lars; Randoy, Trond - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This study examines how globalization of corporate governance practices influence the risk of European CEOs being dismissed. We argue that the harsh monitoring of the American corporate governance system spills over to the rest of the world as a result of this globalization. We focus on direct...

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How to Avoid Compensating CEO for Luck: The Case of Microeconomic Fluctuations

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhua - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO’s perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...

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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...

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Executive Compensation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas; Zhang, Jianhoa - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Macroeconomic fluctuations affect corporations’ performance through demand and cost conditions. Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences if management is unable to forecast macroeconomic fluctuations or...

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Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?

Svaleryd, helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

find that entrenched managers pay their workers more. For example, our estimates show that CEOs with more control rights … as evidence of agency problems between shareholders and managers affecting workers’ pay. The findings do not appear to be … with an agency model in which entrenched managers pay high wages because they come with private benefits, such as lower …

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Social Norms and Optimal Incentives in Firms

Huck, Steffen; Kübler, Dorothea; Weibull, Jörgen - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This paper deals with the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We outline a simple model of team production and provide preliminary results on linear incentive schemes in the presence of a social norm that may cause multiple equilibria. The effect of the social norm...

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Private Enterprise vs. Government Control: An Organizationally Dynamic Comparison

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985

It is noted that modern economics cannot decide which economic system is the best way of organizing production. In particular, support is given to Nelson (1981) who claims that modern economics does not provide any substantial argument in favor of private enterprise being the best. However,...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. Taken as a whole, the empirical literature indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces...

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