Self-set salaries and creativityJournal of Business Economics - Tập 91 - Trang 91-121 - 2020
Christian Brück, Thorsten Knauer, Harald Meier, Anja Schwering
Organizations frequently try to incentivize employees to develop highly creative solutions. In this study, we examine self-set salaries as a specific type of incentive design. We investigate whether self-set salaries affect employees’ motivation and overall (creative) performance. Moreover, because self-set salaries potentially risk opportunistic employee behavior, we consider the effect of the ob...... hiện toàn bộ
Information as potential key determinant in switching electricity suppliersJournal of Business Economics - Tập 87 - Trang 263-290 - 2016
Magdalena Six, Franz Wirl, Jaqueline Wolf
In this paper, we investigate the drivers and obstacles to switch the electricity supplier for Austrian households. Since the liberalization of the market in 2001, the annual switching rates have remained at surprisingly low levels, leading to a loss of significant savings potential for Austrian households. The results of our exploratory study suggest that the knowledge about tariffs and electrici...... hiện toàn bộ
Coordination contracts for reverse supply chains: a state-of-the-art reviewJournal of Business Economics - Tập 89 - Trang 747-792 - 2017
Michael Krapp, Johannes B. Kraus
Various legal requirements as well as economic
reasoning render the re-use of products mandatory. Hence, the field of supply chain management and coordination under the consideration of returns has constantly grown over the last decade. However, terms and definitions regarding returns and returns handling are inconsistent. Furthermore, approaches are not classified from a return-based point of vi...... hiện toàn bộ
Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles with respect to entry ageJournal of Business Economics - Tập 83 - Trang 171-191 - 2013
Christian Pfeifer
This paper adds a new empirical finding of the impact of workers’ entry age on wage-tenure profiles to the literature, which might be explained by human capital and deferred compensation models. I analyze two different data sets stemming from personnel records of a large German company and from German linked employer-employee data. The analyzed company employs a quite large share of older workers ...... hiện toàn bộ
Koordination durch heuristische BudgetierungsverfahrenJournal of Business Economics - Tập 79 - Trang 897-927 - 2009
Dominik Kramer
Dezentralisierung in Unternehmen ist immer mit dem Problem der Koordination verbunden. Die Budgetierung ist ein mögliches Instrument zur Koordination dezentralisierter Teilentscheidungen, ihr kommt in der betrieblichen Praxis große Bedeutung zu. Die Koordination im Rahmen der Budgetierung kann über Mengenvorgaben oder über Verrechnungspreise erfolgen. Diese beiden Möglichkeiten können mit untersch...... hiện toàn bộ
Big bath accounting and CEO turnover: the interplay between optimal contracts and career concernsJournal of Business Economics - Tập 92 - Trang 1249-1281 - 2022
Tim Hensel, Jens Robert Schöndube
Following executive turnovers big bath accounting is often observed. We investigate a new manager’s earnings management incentives in his first year in office in a two-period model with career concerns and earnings’ lack of timeliness. We determine the optimal incentive contract and decompose the manager’s equilibrium earnings management into two components: an explicit incentive resulting from th...... hiện toàn bộ