Essays On Top Management And Corporate Behavior
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Essays On Top Management And Corporate Behavior
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Author : Hui-Ting Wu
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Essays On Top Management And Corporate Behavior written by Hui-Ting Wu and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Three Essays On Management And Organization
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Author : Bryan Hong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Three Essays On Management And Organization written by Bryan Hong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
This dissertation examines how managers influence firm behavior and performance. Managers play an important role in the performance and activities of firms, given their decision-making role within organizations. I conduct three separate empirical analyses examining specific factors that influence the impact that managers have on firm behavior and performance. The first chapter investigates the following question: How does the performance impact of supervisor changes differ across levels in a hierarchy? In my results, I find that supervisor changes at higher levels result in more severe performance declines relative to lower levels in the hierarchy, even when accounting for differences in span of control. The findings suggest that reassignment and turnover of managers at higher levels may be more costly for firms, independent of their ability and other individual characteristics. The second chapter examines the following: What is the effect of replacing experienced managers with rookie managers on firm performance? And, how does this change if they are instead replaced with experienced managers? At the individual store level, I observe the behavior and performance effects of management changes when successors are newly promoted store managers, and compare this to changes where successors are experienced store managers that are reassigned. In my results, newly promoted store managers systematically cut costs that briefly lead to profit increases, but ultimately result in profit declines in subsequent months. By contrast, successors that have prior experience as a manager do not make any changes observable in my data, and I find no evidence of performance changes. These findings suggest that inexperienced managers within firms may engage in well-intentioned behavior that may be costly for firms, at least in the short run. However, managerial experience may reduce the likelihood that the same costly behavior is repeated. The results shed additional insight into how managerial experience may matter for performance, and provide a tangible estimate of the performance costs of being a rookie manager. In the final essay, I investigate the influence of top managers on corporate social responsibility (CSR). A growing body of literature suggests that individual managers may play a critical role in determining corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. However, attempts to quantitatively measure the individual influence managers have on CSR face significant empirical challenges. Estimation methods unable to adequately control for firm-specific factors influencing CSR are likely to overstate the importance of individual managers in their findings. To address these concerns, I use an identification approach allowing for the simultaneous estimation of manager and firm fixed effects, and provide quantitative estimates of the degree to which individual managers might influence CSR. The results suggest that managers do exert some degree of individual influence on CSR outside of firm-specific factors, but that the magnitude of their effect is relatively small. Also, when managers switch firms, I find no evidence of a relationship between their influence on CSR in their first and second firm, suggesting that managers do not exert a persistent influence on CSR independent of the firm where they are employed.
Labour Markets Commuting And Company Cars
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Author : Eva Gutiérrez Puigarnau
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2011
Labour Markets Commuting And Company Cars written by Eva Gutiérrez Puigarnau and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Stochastic Dominance In Portfolio Analysis And Asset Pricing
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Author : Andrey M. Lizyayev
language : en
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Stochastic Dominance In Portfolio Analysis And Asset Pricing written by Andrey M. Lizyayev and has been published by Rozenberg Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Life And Death In The Executive Fast Lane
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Author : Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
language : en
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Release Date : 1995-09-12
Life And Death In The Executive Fast Lane written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and has been published by Jossey-Bass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries puts organizations on the couch in this collection of sad, mad, funny, and outrageous essays. By combining the "dismal science" of economics and the "impossible profession" of psychoanalysis, Kets de Vries presents eclectic commentaries on how things really work in organizations. Capturing the essence of the irrationalities that pervade our organizations and compromise our leaders, he offers surprising and useful ideas about what makes organizations tick and why they and the people in them ultimately succeed or fail.
When Business Is In The Blood
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Author : Saim Kashmiri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
When Business Is In The Blood written by Saim Kashmiri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Family firms play a significant role in the U.S. economy, making up about 35 percent of S & P 500 or Fortune 500 companies and contributing about 65 percent to the U.S. GDP. This research explores differences in strategic behavior and firm performance between family firms and non-family firms, and further explores whether family firms such as Dell Inc. that use their founding family's name as part of their firm name (termed family-named firms, or FN firms) behave and perform any differently versus family firms such as Gap Inc. whose firm name does not include their family's name (termed non-family-named firms, or NFN firms). The first study which is based on a multi-industry sample of 130 publicly listed U.S. family firms over a five-year period (2002-2006), reveals that compared to NFN firms, FN firms have significantly higher levels of corporate citizenship and representation of their customers' voice (i.e., presence of a chief marketing officer) in the top management team. FN firms also have a higher strategic emphasis (i.e., a greater emphasis on value appropriation relative to value creation) compared to NFN firms. Furthermore, FN firms perform better (i.e., have a higher ROA) than NFN firms, and their superior performance is partially mediated by their higher corporate citizenship levels and strategic emphasis. In the second study -- an event study of 1294 product introduction announcements of 107 publicly listed U.S. family firms from 2005-2007 -- I find that relative to NFN firms, FN firms are rewarded more by the stock market for introducing new products. Superior returns to FN firms' new product introductions are partially mediated by these firms' history of trustworthy product-related behavior: FN firms, particularly those with corporate branding, and those wherein a founding family member holds the CEO or Chairman position, are more likely to exhibit a history of avoiding such product-related controversies as product safety issues, and deceptive advertising. The third study explores differences in strategic behavior and firm performance between family firms and non-family firms in the context of 7 U.S. economic recessions between the years 1970 and 2008. Findings based on a sample of 428 U.S. publicly listed firms reveal that family firms consistently outperform non-family firms during economic recessions. This superior performance is partially driven by family firms' unique strategic behavior: during recessions, family firms maintain higher levels of advertising intensity, exhibit lower financial leverage, and get involved in fewer social and employee-related unethical actions than non-family firms. The three studies taken together have important implications for family firm, branding, CSR, firm valuation, and innovation-related theory and practice. I highlight these implications in my dissertation.
The Corporation And Its Publics Essays On The Corporate Image
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Author : Foundation for Research on Human Behavior
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Corporation And Its Publics Essays On The Corporate Image written by Foundation for Research on Human Behavior and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Corporations categories.
Personnel Literature
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Author : United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Personnel Literature written by United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Civil service categories.
Two Essays On Superstar Directors
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Author : Silu Cheng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Two Essays On Superstar Directors written by Silu Cheng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Award winners categories.
My dissertation contains two essays on the effect of "superstar" directors, defined as the members of board of directors who have won prestigious national awards. For this project, I hand-collect the data about awardee directors from Financial Times, Forum for Corporate Directors, and the National Association of Corporate Directors from 1996 to 2016. With this sample, I conduct a series of studies of the effect of the award-winner directors on corporate governance, including the effectiveness of top management monitoring and strategic advising. In order to disentangle the effects of observable firm and director characteristics, I adopt a propensity-score matching procedure for all the tests. Additionally, a series of placebo tests are conducted to validate the results. In chapter two, the focus is on directors' monitoring responsibility, and the aspects that are investigated include CEO compensation level, pay-performance sensitivity, risk-taking incentives, and turnover-performance sensitivity. I find that in the firms with awardee directors, CEOs receive both a higher level and a percentage of incentive pay. They also exhibit higher risk-taking incentives. No significant association is discovered between CEO forced turnover and award-winner directors. Chapter three focuses on the effect of awardee directors on their strategic advising effectiveness with the investigation of firm value and performance, acquisition abnormal returns, and corporate innovation. Evidence exists that awardee directors are positively associated with firm valuation and performance, measured with gross margin, ln (Tobin's Q), sales growth, and ROA. Moreover, I discover a positive relationship between awardee directors and acquisition performance. Firms with awardees also invest more in research and development. In addition, a negative association exists between awardee directors and firm patent number and citations.
Corporate Governance
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Author : Joachim Schwalbach
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Corporate Governance written by Joachim Schwalbach and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Corporate Governance is a subject of great interest to academics, investors, and politicians throughout the world. Corporate governance is associated with the way firms are managed and controlled. Countries have adopted different governance systems to resolve the corporate governance issues. Anglo-Saxon systems differ from European and Japanese systems, and Eastern Europe and China, for instance, experiment with the way private organizations should be governed. Despite the great interest and intense debate, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of various governance systems is still sparse. This book brings together most current contributions from various perspectives and from an international angle. The book is an essential reading for academics, university students, practitioners, investors, politicians, and legislators.