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Executive Compensation and Misconduct: Environmental Harm
(2016-02-23)
We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and misconduct using the setting of environmental harm. We find that high powered executive compensation can increase the odds of environmental law-breaking by ...
Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility
(2015-08-17)
We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance ...
Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations
(2015-08-31)
We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in which experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm’s brand and their own skills. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, we find that ...
Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians
(2016-01-06)
When seeking new leaders, business and government organizations alike often need individuals that are less risk averse, or even risk-seeking, in order to improve performance. However, individuals amenable to increased ...
The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection
(2015-08-31)
We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is used by managers to protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We ...
Toxic Workers
(2015-11-03)
While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are harmful to organizational performance. ...
Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay
(2015-11-04)
We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and groups affect performance when faced with relative incentives. We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in ...
The Organization of Non-market Strategy
(2016-05-06)
The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms organize to engage in non-market strategy. To achieve this end, we explore the organization of non-market strategy via a formal model of the firm. The model is motivated ...
Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis
(INFORMS, 2011)
Platform competition is ubiquitous, yet platform market structure is little understood. Theory models typically suffer from equilibrium multiplicity—platforms might coexist or the market might tip to either platform. We ...