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Finance

“Executive Compensation and Agency Costs in Germany”

With the growth of international mergers like DaimlerChrysler, interest in executive compensation practices abroad, particularly in Germany, has increased. Using unique data sources for Germany, we find that similar to US firms, German firms also have agency problems caused by the separation of ownership from control, with ownership dispersion leading to higher compensation. In addition, there is evidence that bank influence has a negative impact on compensation.
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Julie Ann Elston and Larry Goldberg "Executive Compensation and Agency Costs in Germany" Journal of Banking & Finance Journal of Banking and Finance 1391-1410 pages 2003 View on: Google Scholar

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Management

“Expectation-based interventions for expatriates”

Expatriate assignments are one of the primary tools used by organizations to extend their influence on an international level. While potentially of great value if they succeed, there are significant costs to both the organization and individual if they do not. Because of the high risk nature of expatriate assignments, there has been significant interest in interventions to increase the likelihood of their success. One under-explored area in the expatriate literature relates to expatriate expectations and acculturation experiences. We first review the literature regarding the major expectation-based interventions, including realistic job previews (RJPs), realistic living condition previews (RLCPs), and expectation lowering procedures (ELPs), and then develop a theoretical model of these interventions in the context of expatriates. Building upon this model, we suggest several important theoretical and practical questions that deserve future attention.
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C. Gibson, Jay Hardy, J. Baur, D. Frink and M. Buckley "Expectation-based interventions for expatriates" International Journal of Intercultural Relations International Journal of Intercultural Relations 332-342 pages 2015 View on: Google Scholar

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Finance

“Experimental Shareholder Activism: A Novel Approach to Organizational Research”

Decision making processes and consequent policy decisions of top management teams often have tremendous impact on employee careers and wellbeing, but the difficulty of accessing executive decision making has made studying such processes especially difficult. Whereas scholars have often relied on their own professional networks to gather small samples of executives or leveraged proxy measures compiled from publicly-available documents, we propose and demonstrate an alternative approach which we term Experimental Shareholder Activism (ESA). ESA allows researchers to directly study executive leadership via the shareholder proposal process—under Rule 14a-8—by purchasing relatively small amounts of stock in a company, and experimentally manipulating features of shareholder proposals to elicit responses from key stakeholders within the company. This approach allows for the direct examination of executive decision making with the benefit of quasi-experimental design. We describe the method, identify vocational and career-relevant areas of inquiry best suited to ESA, and discuss manipulations readily embedded in shareholder proposals. We then provide a toolkit for scholars interested in studying executive decision making on employee career and Human Resource-related outcomes, and demonstrate the viability of such an approach via a pilot experiment.
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Jonathan Kalodimos and Keith Leavitt "Experimental Shareholder Activism: A Novel Approach to Organizational Research" Journal of Vocational Behavior Elsevier 2020 View on: Google Scholar

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Management

“Exploration-Exploitation tradeoffs and information-knowledge gaps in self-regulated learning: Implications for training and development”

Learning in modern organizations often involves managing a tradeoff between exploration (i.e., knowledge expansion) and exploitation (i.e., knowledge refinement). In this paper, we consider the implications of this tradeoff in the context of learner-controlled training and development. We then propose a model that integrates research on control theory, curiosity, and skill acquisition to explain how information knowledge gaps (i.e., gaps between what learners believe they know and what they desire to know) guide resource allocation decisions throughout the learning process. Using this model, we present testable propositions regarding (a) the different approaches learners take when resolving exploration-exploitation tradeoffs, (b) how systematic changes in learner perceptions translate into changes in systematic learner behavior, and (c) how common biases in key learner perceptions can undermine the functioning of self-regulated learning in training and development contexts. We finish with a discussion of the model's implications for the science and practice of training and development.
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Jay Hardy, Eric Day and Winfred Arthur Jr "Exploration-Exploitation tradeoffs and information-knowledge gaps in self-regulated learning: Implications for training and development" Human Resource Management Review 196-217 pages 2019 View on: Google Scholar

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Supply Chain

“Exploring Supply Managers' Intrapreneurial Ability and Relationship Quality.”

This article examined the degree to which a supply manager's intrapreneurial ability influences the quality of individual-level relationships with internal customers and the supplier's account executive. The moderating influence of the buyer's firm-level commitment to the supplier and how these relationships subsequently impact supplier performance were explored. The study assessed the supply manager's intrapreneurial ability using survey data gathered from 110 supply managers across a variety of industries. In key supplier relationships, a supply manager's intrapreneurial ability positively influences the quality of internal and external relationships. The firm's commitment to the supplier weakens the relationship between intrapreneurial ability and relationship quality. The findings highlight the value of individual skills to enhance relationships The ability to behave intrapreneurially shapes the quality of internal and supplier relationships. However, only the supply manager's relationship with the supplier's account executive is related to supplier performance. By examining the impact of intrapreneurial ability on individual-level relationships with internal customers and supplier's account executive, a more comprehensive view of business-to-business relationship management in the supply chain is gained.
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Michelle Steward, Zhaohui Wu and Janet Hartley "Exploring Supply Managers' Intrapreneurial Ability and Relationship Quality." Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing 1-12 pages 2010 View on: Google Scholar

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