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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Managerial discretion"”.
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Exploring the Belief Systems of Senior Managers: Antecedents of Managerial Discretion
… extreme positions of opposition and a theory of managerial discretion has been proposed to bridge the divide. This thesis builds and extends the concept of managerial discretion as an alternative framework to explain the black-box processes of upper-echelons theory. The theoretical model …
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The effects of inter- and intra-cultural variations on managerial discretion and the implications for national competitiveness
… thesis examines cross-cultural differences in managerial discretion and the extent to which variations in inter- and intra-cultural practices affect the degree of freedom in decision-making that is afforded to executives. Research into the degree of discretion, or ‘latitude’ of executive …
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Essays On CEO Turnover, Succession, And Compensation
… boards may not be effective in removing CEOs. Managerial discretion defines the working environment of a manager and could potentially affect a board's choice of a successor CEO. In essay 2, I hypothesize that boards tend to appoint younger (older) CEOs in firms with high (low) managerial …
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An Examination of the Influence of Top Executives on Entrepreneurial Orientation
… degree to which a firm exhibits behaviors and managerial philosophies that are innovative, proactive and risk-taking. EO is an extensively studied construct, yet there is still much to be explored and understood about its effects and predictors. This study adds to the discussion by examining …
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Three Essays On Private Market Interactions
… we test theories relating how risk shifting, managerial discretion, underinvestment, asset liability matching, regulation, home bias, and reaching for yield affect PE investment. Results indicate risk¬ shifting and managerial discretion by stock insurers does not factor into the PE investment …
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Microfoundations Approach to Risk and Uncertainty in the Uppsala Internationalization Process
… approach for greater insight on differences in managerial cognition for entering business in high-risk locations. Consequently, findings challenge the Uppsala model’s longstanding stance concerning the risk-internationalization association governed by strict firm-level analysis. I examine CEO …
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Unconscious Emission Reductions Through Psychological Safety and Flexible Work
… These discrepancies highlight the influence of managerial discretion, policy ambiguity, and workplace norms. Overall, emission reductions emerged largely as unintended externalities of personal and logistical decisions, demonstrating how workplace design can indirectly generate environmental …
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The role of the institutional environment as a barrier or an enabler to entrepreneurial and innovation activity; the case of the South African green economy industry
… by utilising entrepreneurial orientation and managerial discretion to achieve entrepreneurial output. By examining the implications of South Africa's post-apartheid legacy on present-day entrepreneurship in these sectors, the study yields valuable insights from the entrepreneurs' perspectives. …
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Climate Change Disclosures in Family Firms
… considering the level of enforcement and managerial discretion in the definition of materiality, market participants raised concerns about the lack and quality of CCR disclosure. This research explores the effects of family control as an important determinant of CCR disclosure strategies. …
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Dark Personality Traits and Board Leadership: Three Essays on the Enactment of Governance Authority
… design, as the primary means of constraining managerial discretion. However, the persistent heterogeneity in organizational behavior among structurally similar firms suggests that formal design alone cannot explain how governance authority operates in practice. This dissertation argues that …
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Relatability: the hidden force behind Black African youth employment disadvantage
… Culture of Selective Affirmation, and Unfettered Managerial Discretion.
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Antecedents and Consequences of Top Management Team Characteristics
… and firm performance is moderated by managerial discretion and industry characteristics. Using a panel sample of 1,752 firm-year observations from 292 U.S. based manufacturing firms over 6 years, this study tests multiple hypotheses derived from the propositions. Results suggest that …
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Terrible timing: The causes and consequences of problematic work schedules
… not only to the work they perform but also to managerial discretion. In Chapter 2, I use interviews and fieldwork to document how frontline managers in the retailer’s e-commerce fulfillment centers (FCs) go about the complex task of scheduling. I find that despite pressures for conformity, …
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Causes and consequences of external blockholdings
… from bondholders, as proxied by the level of discretionary assets in the firm. Further, consistent with theory, announcement excess returns are positively related to the size of the blockholding and the identity of the blockholder. There is no evidence that blockholders play a valuable role in …
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Theorising Irish company law: locating Irish company law within entity theory
… most corporate law frameworks enable and support managerial discretion which this thesis refers to as the second pillar of entity theory. These findings converge on the conclusion that the core of decision-making in the company is made by management not by or even for shareholders. This is an …
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Comparing bank mergers in Europe and the USA: bidding bank performance
… extent that monitoring by shareholders restricts managerial discretion and its potentially negative effects on shareholder wealth, stricter regulation is associated with less effective governance. However, the results reported in this thesis suggest that board characteristics such as independence, …