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Showing 1 to 20 of 1802 for “"Managerial"”.
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… the heart of organisations and, as an essential managerial function, it has been the subject of an immense body of literature. As the majority of research has been undertaken within the disciplines of economics and psychology, studies have tended to emphasise economic rationality as the basis for …
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Sales Promotion: A Managerial Perspective.
… limited examination of sales promotions from a managerial perspective. What has been produced tends to be largely prescriptive and written for practitioners. In this thesis the ontology of critical realism has been used to develop a conceptual framework that treats sales promotions as individual …
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Three Essays on Managerial Compensation
"The third chapter examines multi-year dynamic response of CEO compensation to firm performance. Multi-period agency theories posit that the CEO's current performance can be compensated both today and tomorrow. This study investigates the dynamic view of CEO pay and firm performance by using …
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Four Essays on Managerial Incentives
"In chapter 4, we consider the unexpected share price reaction to corporate news announcements. We first consider whether there is more information content in similar corporate news announcements for different types of firms. Second, we investigate whether the value of news information about these …
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Managerial incentives and corporate control
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Managerial Attitudes, Ethics and Foreign Labour
The phenomenal increase of foreign labour employment (FLE) in the last three decades has brought about numerous socio-economic problems for receiving, sending and hosting nations of foreign workers. As a consequence, these have triggered many clamours for justice and equity for foreign workers from …
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Risk-Return Tradeoffs and Managerial incentives
Moral hazard theory posits that managerial risk aversion imposes agency costs on shareholders, and firms respond by providing risk-taking incentives to mitigate these costs. The underlying assumption in this literature is that increasing shareholder value requires increasing risk, yet there is …
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Topology of Social and Managerial Networks
… that classi- cal connectivity measures on managerial and societal networks can be very imprecise and extending them to weighted networks with the aim of uncovering regions of weak connectivity. In the first two chapters of the thesis we introduce the main instruments that will be used in …
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Managerial Thinking and Large Diversified Firms
Much of the diversification literature, by focusing almost exclusively on the relationship between diversification strategy and firm performance, suffers from a lack of appreciation for the complex web of external and internal factors that confront the managers of these firms. As Grant, et al. …
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Managerial Behavior: Its Assessment and Implications
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317110.pdf: 6262963 bytes, checksum: 3cf68db51697cb8813f23b9caeed0d29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The operational definition of managerial roles
… study aims for the first time to operationalise managerial behaviour and to produce a set of empirically-based statements of the differences in behaviour which determine managerial effectiveness or failure.
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Interrelationship between insider trading and managerial attributes
… By testing two competing hypotheses: the managerial power hypothesis and the tournament hypothesis, the research finds a robust evidence supporting the managerial power hypothesis that insiders in large CEO pay disparity firms tend to exploit inside earnings news to profit their stock …
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Essays on Executive Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.
… weak corporate governance is in agreement with managerial power and rent-seeking hypotheses. Controlling for post-acquisition survivor bias, we observe a smaller acquisition premium in CEO pay which may suggest that stronger governance exposes CEOs undertaking bad acquisitions to higher risk of …
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Essays on managerial productivity and firm outcomes
… two chapters explore the sources of variation in managerial skill within an Indian life insurance firm. The existing literature has investigated the association between managerial productivity and management practices across firms, but has largely overlooked how individual traits and skills affect …
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Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance on CEO risk taking. Furthermore, the strong governance mitigates excess …
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The role of anger in managerial effectiveness
… study was to investigate the role of anger on managerial effectiveness. To this end, a sample of male managers in a South African financial organisation completed questionnaires on the experience of anger, the expression of anger, and Type A behaviour. Managerial effectiveness was assessed in …
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Commitment and organisational citizenship behaviours in the Libyan banking sector : insights from managerial and non-managerial employees : an interpretivist exploration
… this study offers empirical insights of 20 managerial and 20 non-managerial employees in the workplace at the banking sector in Libya. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and thematic analysis was applied to construct networks of themes, sub-categories and …
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