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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Management incentives"”.
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
… use of litigation as a tool to influence land management decisions has been documented within the Forest Service. The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows successful litigants to recover attorney fees and other legal expenses from the federal government, has come under much scrutiny …
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Building world-class Chinese companies
… environment. corporate governance structure and management incentives, we discuss the challenges of building world-class companies in China. The paper is in two parts. In the first part, we use the frameworks of supply chain and disruptive technology to investigate the competitive landscape of …
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Corporate bond repurchases and earnings management
This paper investigates whether earnings management incentives are associated with gains/losses recognized when firms repurchase bonds. The research question is motivated by the inclusion of these gains/losses in firms' income, which creates the potential to use them to manage earnings. Using a …
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Benchmark beating and its implications for earnings management : the role of context specific capital market incentives and analysts' cash flow forecasts
… extent to which it is likely to reflect earnings management. To address this issue, the thesis considers two links between benchmark beating and earnings management, and these are outlined in two separate research papers/chapters. These are: (1) Earnings Management Incentives and Intra- Year …
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Subsidiary autonomy and performance of Chinese MNEs in an emerging market
… capability and building up appropriate management incentives, instead of despatching expatriates to effectively improve performance of subsidiaries in emerging markets.
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Do Public-to-Private Leveraged Buyouts Result in Improved Operating Performance? Evidence from the United Kingdom
… other hand, the hypotheses relating to improved management incentives and improved shareholder monitoring are not supported by the results, as these factors seem to have little to no effect on the operating performance changes related to the public-to-private LBOs in the sample.
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Economic potential for clinically significant in vitro diagnostics
… impact the course of a patients' disease management. This transformation has strained the traditional in vitro diagnostic business model and raised questions as to whether the economics support the commercial development of these tests. The goal of this study is to evaluate the economics …
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At the heart of everything we do: a case study of public/patient participation in hospital governance
… of elected representatives who are part of the management and governance of large, semi-autonomous publicly funded hospitals in the UK. Specifically, this project examines a tertiary-care research-linked hospital that delivers services funded by and on behalf of the National Health Service …
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Understanding Structural, Governance and Regulatory Incentives for Improved Utility Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Electricity Utilities in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda
… regulatory and governance frameworks and incentives that potentially impact utility performance in Africa. This thesis draws on the literature of power sector reforms and applies a Principal–Agent theory lens to obtain a deeper understanding of the dynamics between principals …
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Corporate distress in an emerging market : the case of China
… process as it distorts resource allocation, management incentives and investment decisions. An effective bankruptcy regime should be more independent from politically motivated government intervention.
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Making sense of incentive experiences: a discourse analysis of middle managers’ accounts
Incentives (inducements to motivate performance) are a pervasive and persistent feature of middle management compensation in spite of on-going challenges to their efficacy, cost, and more recently, their impact on employees. Most research to date focuses on the achievement of organisational …
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Investigating the role of knowledge management in the development of asset management practice in selected public sector organisations in Nigeria.
… explores the conceptualisation of knowledge management in developing asset management practices in a developing country. Nigerian public sector is used as a case because it is a developing country where asset management practices and knowledge management are not fully implemented. …
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The Effects of Executive Compensation and Auditor Industry Specialization on Financial Reporting Executives\' Decision-Making during a Potential Restatement That Will Lead to a "Clawback"
… higher percentage of total compensation based on incentives or a lower percentage of total compensation based on incentives) and auditor industry specialization (i.e., industry-specialist or non-industry specialist) in a clawback environment. I hypothesized that higher incentives or the presence …
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Does Corporate Governance Influence Misstatement Disclosure Timeliness?
… of in-the-money stock options incentivizing management to disclose material misstatements in a less timely manner and a non-linear relationship between management ownership and timeliness where lower levels of ownership improve timeliness and higher levels of ownership inhibit timeliness. The …
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Disclosure through multiple disclosure channels
This study examines the impact of managers having a choice of disclosure channels through which they can voluntarily disclose. This first chapter presents a model in which the manager can choose to disclose different information to two different investor types: informed and uninformed. Firm value …
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Essays on Team-based Incentives
Over the past few decades, team-based incentives are used by more and more organizations to motivate their agents to exert effort. The usage of team incentives creates many challenges, especially the “free-riding” problem. In current dissertation, I provide the evidence from the laboratory and …