SSRN Organizations & Markets: Motivation & Incentives eJournal

1.

Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality -- Abridged (English Language Version)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-061, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 10-07

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016

Working Paper Series

Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron

Independent, SSRN and Landmark Worldwide LLC

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 14,884

2.

The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang

Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,289

3.

The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann

Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Law School

Downloads 9,054

4.

Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016

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Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen and P. Raghavendra Rau

University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and University of Cambridge

Downloads 7,019

5.

Death and Taxes and Zombies

98 Iowa Law Review 1207 (2013)

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Adam Chodorow

Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Downloads 6,624

6.

Foundations of Organizational Strategy: Preface and Introduction

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 1998

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Oct 2000 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

Downloads 6,113

7.

What Counts and What Gets Counted

Number of pages: 216 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2016

Working Paper Series

Robert J. Bloomfield

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Downloads 5,798

8.

Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Charles A Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-13, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-13, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-27, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 256/2009

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010

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Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,584

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Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Jun 2011

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Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh

Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Downloads 5,349

10.

The Impact of Training and Motivation on Performance of Employees

Business Review, Volume 7, Number 2, July - December 2012, 84-95

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Muhammad Ikhlas Khan

UBL Fund Managers Limited

Downloads 5,296

11.

Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2013

Working Paper Series

Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

Independent and SSRN

Downloads 4,934

12.

Paying for Long-Term Performance

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, pp. 1915-1959, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 658

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010

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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,447

13.

CEO Compensation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 77

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2010

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Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter

Northwestern University and London School of Economics & Political Science

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,156

14.

Mandatory Fun: Consent, Gamification and the Impact of Games at Work

The Wharton School Research Paper Series

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014

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Ethan R. Mollick and Nancy Rothbard

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Management Department

Downloads 4,142

15.

The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation: An Empirical Study

De Economist, Vol. 153, No. 3, 2005, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 03-048/3

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Marco van Herpen, Mirjam van Praag and Kees Cools

Boston Consulting Group, University of Amsterdam - Department of Economics and Boston Consulting Group

Downloads 4,075

16.

Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment

Forthcoming in Organization Science, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 13-069

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin and Lamar Pierce

University of California, Riverside (UCR), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business

Downloads 3,873

17.

The Determinants of Corporate Board Size and Composition: An Empirical Analysis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 85, No. 1, 2007, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Audra L. Boone, Laura Casares Field, Jonathan M. Karpoff and Charu G. Raheja

Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Wake Forest University

Downloads 3,858

18.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,649

19.

Earnings Management and Executive Compensation: A Case of Overdose of Option and Underdose of Salary?

EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Mar 2002

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Ronald E. Shrieves and Pengjie Gao

University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Finance and University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business

Downloads 3,631

20.

The Myth that Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 113, No. 6, pp. 1637-1694, October 2013, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 755

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,421

21.

Four Ways of Being that Create the Foundations of A Great Personal Life, Great Leadership and A Great Organization -- PDF File of Powerpoint Slides

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 13-078, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 13-01

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 29 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 May 2014

Working Paper Series

Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen

Independent and SSRN

Downloads 3,327

22.

Calculation of Compensation Incentives and Firm-Related Wealth Using Execucomp: Data, Program, and Explanation

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Jul 2013

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Jeffrey L. Coles, Naveen D. Daniel and Lalitha Naveen

David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Drexel University - Department of Finance and Temple University

Downloads 3,201

23.

Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Caused by a Lack of Corporate Ethics?

Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 77-84, 2010

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Jul 2010

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Victor Lewis, Kenneth D. Kay, Chandrika Kelso and James Larson

National University, National University, National University and National University

Downloads 3,117

24.

Dynamic CEO Compensation

Journal of Finance 67(5), 1603-1647, October 2012

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabaix, Tomasz Sadzik and Yuliy Sannikov

London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Harvard University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,014

25.

Corporate Governance, Incentives, and Tax Avoidance

Journal of Accounting and Economics 60 (August 2015): 1–17., Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 136,

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2015

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Chris Armstrong, Jennifer L. Blouin, Alan D. Jagolinzer and David F. Larcker

University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Downloads 2,646

26.

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, April 2014, pp. 140-154, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 683

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014

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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang

Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Harvard Business School

Downloads 2,597

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Is U.S. CEO Compensation Inefficient Pay Without Performance?

103 Michigan Law Review 1142 (2005), Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-05

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2017

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John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and Randall S. Thomas

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Vanderbilt University - Law School

Downloads 2,566

28.

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 450/2015

Number of pages: 165 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017

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Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix

London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,561

29.

Enlightened Shareholder Value, Social Responsibility, and the Redefinition of Corporate Purpose Without Law

Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2010-11

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jun 2010

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David Millon

Washington and Lee University - School of Law

Downloads 2,489

30.

What do Boards do? Evidence from Board Committee and Director Compensation Data

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Sep 2005

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Renee B. Adams

University of New South Wales, Department of Banking and Finance

Downloads 2,439

31.

Analysis of the Employee Motivation Factors: Focus on Age and Gender Specific Factors

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 Sep 2012

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Sofija Karaskakovska

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 2,295

32.

Equity Vesting and Investment

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 379/2013

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 May 2013 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang and Katharina Lewellen

London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Accounting and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,215

33.

Agency Theory and Executive Compensation: The Case of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jan 2003

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Taye Mengistae and Lixin Colin Xu

World Bank and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 2,108

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El Clima y la Justicia Organizacional y su Efecto en la Satisfaccion Laboral (The Impact of Organizational Climate, Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction)

Revista Internacional Administración & Finanzas, v. 5 (5) p. 1-19,

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Juana Patlán-Pérez, Edgar Martínez Torres and Rosalía Hernández Hernández

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Autonomous University of Hidalgo State and Colegio de Posgraduados

Downloads 2,039

35.

Motivating Innovation

Journal of Finance, vol. 66, pp. 1823-1869, 2011, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2014

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Gustavo Manso

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Downloads 1,990

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Good Firms, Good Targets: The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility, Reputation, and Activist Targeting

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World: Toward Effective Global CSR Frameworks. Edited by Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim. (Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Brayden King and Mary-Hunter McDonnell

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and The Wharton School - The University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 1,872

37.

CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), 2013, 56(2-3), pp. 79-101., AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Todd A. Gormley, David A. Matsa and Todd T. Milbourn

Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School

Downloads 1,830

38.

Outsourcing Shareholder Voting to Proxy Advisory Firms

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 58, No. 1 (February 2015), pp. 173-204, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 119, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-27 (2105R), IESE Business School Working Paper No. WP1096-E

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015

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David F. Larcker, Allan L. McCall and Gaizka Ormazabal

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Navarra, IESE Business School

Downloads 1,806

39.

CEO Compensation, Director Compensation, and Firm Performance: Evidence of Cronyism

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Apr 2002

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Ivan E. Brick, Oded Palmon and John K. Wald

Rutgers Business School, Rutgers Business School and University of Texas at San Antonio

Downloads 1,768

40.

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field

27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017

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John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, Jillian Popadak Grennan and Shivaram Rajgopal

Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,701

41.

Back Door Links Between Directors and Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Feb 2005

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David F. Larcker, Scott A. Richardson, Andrew Seary and A. Irem Tuna

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - School of Communication and London Business School

Downloads 1,699

42.

Corporate Governance and Blockchains

Review of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 07 May 2017

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David Yermack

New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,629

43.

Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Mar 2013

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Alan Benson

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

Downloads 1,586

44.

Do Long-Term Investors Improve Corporate Decision Making?

Finance Down Under 2015 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance Paper, Asian Finance Association 2015 Conference Paper

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 05 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017

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Jarrad Harford, Ambrus Kecskes and Sattar Mansi

University of Washington, York University - Schulich School of Business and Virginia Tech

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,562

45.

Do Compensation Consultants Enable Higher CEO Pay? A Disclosure Rule Change As a Separating Device

Management Science, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2017

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Jenny Chu, Jonathan Faasse and P. Raghavendra Rau

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Independent and University of Cambridge

Downloads 1,506

46.

Does Educational Background Affect CEO Compensation and Firm Performance?

The Journal of Applied Business Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 15-40, 2010

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Terrance Jalbert, Kimberly Furumo and Mercedes Jalbert

University of Hawaii - Department of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Hilo, CoBE and The Institute for Business and Finance Research

Downloads 1,497

47.

The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions

The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1467-1492, 2016

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li and George Serafeim

London Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,483

48.

The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Employees' Motivation and Retention.

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Mar 2014

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Akram Al-Khaled

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,463

49.

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2014

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George Serafeim

Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,450

50.

Did Harvard Violate Federal Securities Law? The Campaign Against Classified Boards of Directors

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 199

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 10 Dec 2014

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Daniel M. Gallagher and Joseph Grundfest

United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Stanford University Law School

Downloads 1,449

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