Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explain how two task characteristics and two individual differences influence which heuristics individuals use, and as a results explain their decision performance when choosing ...

A well-known prescription in corporate governance is that high-powered incentive contracts such as performance bonuses are an optimal mechanism for aligning managers with shareholders on an efficient investment policy. ...

Top management from retail banks must delegate authority to lower-level managers to operate branches and service centers. Doing so, they must navigate through conflicts of interest, asymmetric information and limited ...

We perform a cost–beneft analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indiferent between donating and not donating a kidney ...

Top management from retail banks must delegate authority to lowerlevel managers to operate branches and service centers. Doing so, they must navigate through conflicts of interest, asymmetric information and limited ...

This paper explores how boards of directors design executive compensation to cater to investor demand. Following the literature of catering incentives and using a comprehensive dataset of accounting-based performance goals, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how two task characteristics and two individual differences influence which heuristics individuals use, and as a results explain their decision performance when choosing ...