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Board Social Capital And Ceo Pay, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Board Social Capital And Ceo Pay, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

•Directors are affected by peer pressure and this can affect the amount of money CEOs receive from the company. • Independent directors with a stronger history of networking with other members of the board are associated with lower CEO pay relative to shareholder return. • Powerful CEOs undermine the effects that independent directors have on aligning CEO pay with shareholder return.

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The Pay And Longevity Of Female And Ethnically Diverse Ceos, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

The Pay And Longevity Of Female And Ethnically Diverse Ceos, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Minority CEOs could be hindered by bias, or might be in high demand, and there’s reason to expect either. • Female CEOs make 6% more, and ethnically diverse CEOs make 32% more total compensation than their similarly situated white male counterparts. • This is not necessarily evidence that bias does not exist at the highest levels of the firm – females and ethnic minorities are still substantially underrepresented among for CEOs.

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Ceo Outside Directorships And Strategic Imitation In R&D Investment, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Ceo Outside Directorships And Strategic Imitation In R&D Investment, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• CEO investment patterns in R&D mimic the investment of outside firms on whose board the CEO sits. • CEOs are more likely to imitate the R&D investments of firms on whose boards they serve when they have served on the board longer, the firm’s financial performance is stronger, and the firm is smaller than the CEO’s company.

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The Business Case For Women Leaders, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

The Business Case For Women Leaders, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• More women on the board of directors is positively associated with financial performance. • Women leadership, in general, is associated with positive sales performance. • In countries high in gender egalitarianism, having a woman CEO is more positively associated with firm performance than in countries with lower gender egalitarianism.

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Short-Term Bonuses, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Short-Term Bonuses, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Short-term bonuses, including cash, family meal vouchers, and verbal rewards each increased performance by over 5%. • When these bonuses were removed, performance decreased for those who had received cash bonuses, but not for those receiving verbal rewards. • The negative effect of removing short-term cash bonuses diminished when those cash bonuses were chosen by employees, rather than granted by default.

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Meta-Analysis Of Executive Turnover Post-Acquisition, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Meta-Analysis Of Executive Turnover Post-Acquisition, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Top management team turnover post-acquisition is a key determinant of future firm performance. • Higher integration across strategy, systems, and procedures between the two firms is positively associated with post-acquisition performance. • The degree of executive turnover appears to result from the diminished standing among acquired firm executives post-acquisition.

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Market Reaction To Poison Pill Adoption, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Market Reaction To Poison Pill Adoption, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Market capitalization is reduced by $22.03 million upon poison pill adoptions to protect NOLs and increases by $13.43 million when pills are adopted after a takeover offer. • The company’s strategy and corporate governance influence investor response by shaping interpretations of how poison pills will serve investor interests.

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Job Rotation And Employee Performance, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Job Rotation And Employee Performance, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• High performers who participate in job rotation programs perform better over time. • High performers who participate in job rotation programs perform better in the future than do high performers who did not participate in job rotation programs. • Job rotations do not seem to improve the performance of low performers.

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Identifying Pre-Quitting Behaviors, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Identifying Pre-Quitting Behaviors, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Observable behaviors can predict voluntary turnover. • These observable behaviors, termed pre-quitting behaviors (PQB), can serve notice to intervene to lessen voluntary turnover. • PQBs appear to be negatively related to job performance, and positively related to workplace deviance.

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Performance Consequences Of Ceo Pay Compared To The Pay Of Other Executives, Center For Executive Succession Jan 2016

Performance Consequences Of Ceo Pay Compared To The Pay Of Other Executives, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

• Differences in pay between CEOs and other executives can impact their motivation to perform. • Large and small disparities in pay lead to improved performance, and moderate disparities are associated with worse performance. • If firms have an heir apparent, bigger discrepancies are more uniformly harmful to performance.

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Assessing The Morality Of Entrepreneurial Ideas From A Christian Perspective, David F. Summers Jan 2016

Assessing The Morality Of Entrepreneurial Ideas From A Christian Perspective, David F. Summers

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

A growing interest in entrepreneurship as a tool for economic development and personal wealth creation has generated questions about the morality of both entrepreneurship and specific business ideas, especially for about 30% of the world’s population and the over 70% of the United States population who are Christian. The paper presents a process to evaluate the morality of a business idea from a Christian perspective. Using a Biblically-based relationship model for assessing morality combined with the Business Model Canvas tool (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010) to deconstruct business ideas into their basic building blocks, the paper presents a method to evaluate …

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A Response To The Ais Bright Ict Initiative, Glen Sagers, Douglas P. Twitchell Jan 2016

A Response To The Ais Bright Ict Initiative, Glen Sagers, Douglas P. Twitchell

IT and Supply Chain Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2015, the President of the Associate for Information Systems introduced the Bright ICT Initiative (Lee 2015), which provides a framework for improving Internet security based on four principles: origin responsibility, deliverer responsibility, rule-based digital search warrants, and traceable anonymity. We review these principles and show that at least three of these principles are at odds with the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the founding principles of the Internet and may actually decrease individual security. We conclude giving suggestions for developing principles more in line with human rights.

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Automated Feedback As A Convergence Tool, Tim Chenoweth, Karen Corral, Kit Scott Jan 2016

Automated Feedback As A Convergence Tool, Tim Chenoweth, Karen Corral, Kit Scott

IT and Supply Chain Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study evaluates two content delivery options for teaching a programming language to determine whether an asynchronous format can achieve the same learning efficacy as a traditional lecture (face-to-face) format. We use media synchronicity theory as a guide to choose media capabilities to incorporate into an asynchronous tutorial used asynchronously. We conducted an experiment with 49 students from three classes of a web development class at an American university. Our results suggest that an asynchronous tutorial can achieve the same learning outcomes as a traditional lecture format by using automated feedback for convergence. Somewhat surprisingly, we found that performance did …

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Male Breadwinner Ideology And The Inclination To Establish Market Relationships: Model Development Using Data From Germany And A Mixed-Methods Research Strategy, Michaela Haase, Ingrid Becker, Alexander Nill, Clifford J. Shultz Ii, James W. Gentry Jan 2016

Male Breadwinner Ideology And The Inclination To Establish Market Relationships: Model Development Using Data From Germany And A Mixed-Methods Research Strategy, Michaela Haase, Ingrid Becker, Alexander Nill, Clifford J. Shultz Ii, James W. Gentry

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

A pattern found in many marketing systems, “male breadwinning,” is contingent upon overlapping and shared ideologies, which influence the economic organization and thus the type and number of relationships in those systems. Implementing a mixed-methods research methodology, this article continues and extends previous work in macromarketing on the interplay of markets, ideology, socio-economic organization, and family. A qualitative study illuminated the main ideologies behind male breadwinning and a model was developed to advance the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of male breadwinning. An experiment in the form of a vignette study was subsequently designed and administered. The qualitative study and …

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Pay-For-Performance’S Effect On Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological And Economic Principles Toward A Contingency Perspective, Anthony J. Nyberg, Jenna R. Pieper, Charlie O. Trevor Jan 2016

Pay-For-Performance’S Effect On Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological And Economic Principles Toward A Contingency Perspective, Anthony J. Nyberg, Jenna R. Pieper, Charlie O. Trevor

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Although pay-for-performance’s potential effect on employee performance is a compelling issue, understanding this dynamic has been constrained by narrow approaches to pay-for-performance conceptualization, measurement, and surrounding conditions. In response, we take a more nuanced perspective by integrating fundamental principles of economics and psychology to identify and incorporate employee characteristics, job characteristics, pay system characteristics, and pay system experience into a contingency model of the pay-for-performance–future performance relationship. We test the role that these four key contextual factors play in pay-for-performance effectiveness using 11,939 employees over a 5-year period. We find that merit and bonus pay, as well as their multiyear …

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The Effect Of Competitive Advantages On Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Determinant Or Excuse?, Andrew Dale Almand Jan 2016

The Effect Of Competitive Advantages On Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Determinant Or Excuse?, Andrew Dale Almand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recently, managers of U.S. corporations have explained the motivation behind engaging in extreme and public forms of tax avoidance (i.e. corporate inversions) as addressing the inability to gain or maintain global competitive advantages (Security 2014, 1). While prior research explores how a corporation’s overall business strategy can affect tax avoidance behavior (Higgins et al. 2015) and measures the effects of different components of competitive advantages on tax avoidance (Kubick et al. 2015; Gao et al. 2015), how total global competitive advantages impact tax avoidance remains an unanswered empirical question. Therefore, this study considers the following research questions: 1)How does the …

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Statedata: The National Report On Employment Services And Outcomes, 2016, Jean Winsor, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, John Butterworth, John Shepard, Cady Landa, Frank A. Smith, Daria Domin, Alberto Migliore, Jennifer Bose, Lydia Landim, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston Jan 2016

Statedata: The National Report On Employment Services And Outcomes, 2016, Jean Winsor, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, John Butterworth, John Shepard, Cady Landa, Frank A. Smith, Daria Domin, Alberto Migliore, Jennifer Bose, Lydia Landim, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This report provides statistics over 25 years from several national datasets that address the status of employment and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The authors use abbreviations for both intellectual disability (ID) and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in this report. This is because data sources vary in the specific target groups that can be described. Please refer to each chapter for the disability definition used in that chapter. We provide a comprehensive overview that describes national trends in employment for people with IDD, and the appendices provide individual state profiles with data from several sources. …

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An Examination Of Ceo Reputation Decline And Repair In Response To Deviant Actions, Jennifer Marie Palar Jan 2016

An Examination Of Ceo Reputation Decline And Repair In Response To Deviant Actions, Jennifer Marie Palar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite increasing interest in managerial reputation, little research in the management field has attempted to theorize and empirically examine reputation as a dynamic construct. This paper synthesizes prior reputation literature across disciplines to develop a model of reputation change. Using the context of executive termination it is hypothesized that the same managerial outcome (i.e. termination) carries varied meaning to stakeholders depending on the actions leading to and reason for termination and such meaning impacts the level of executive reputation decline and repair. Additionally, drawing on four established theoretical mechanisms in the reputation literature it is hypothesized that various traits, relationships, …

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Finding The Sweet Spot Of Cause-Related Marketing: Consumer Response To Campaign Tactics, Katharine Michelle Howie Jan 2016

Finding The Sweet Spot Of Cause-Related Marketing: Consumer Response To Campaign Tactics, Katharine Michelle Howie

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cause-related marketing is an effective promotional tool that connects with consumers’ emotions and increases sales. Two essays are presented that explore how consumers respond to different marketing tactics. The first essay presents two studies that examine cause-related marketing (CRM) promotions that require consumers’ active participation. Requiring a follow-up behavior has very valuable implications for maximizing marketing expenditures and customer relationship management. Theories related to ethical behavior, like motivated reasoning and defensive denial, are used to explain when and why consumers respond negatively to these effort demands. The first study finds that consumers rationalize not participating in CRM by devaluing the …

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Three Essays On Retail Branding, The Makings Of A Great Retail Brand: Antecedents, Outcomes, And Retailer Ad Spending Strategies, Chi Zhang Jan 2016

Three Essays On Retail Branding, The Makings Of A Great Retail Brand: Antecedents, Outcomes, And Retailer Ad Spending Strategies, Chi Zhang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Brands are valuable intangible assets with long-term benefits. In the retail industry, branding is of particular importance because of the highly competitive nature of the industry. Even though many of the important branding principles apply, retail brands are distinct from product brands. This dissertation aims to clarify the nature and dimensionality of retail brand equity and explore the effect of retail advertising on its market and financial performance. In the first essay, the primary antecedents of retail brand equity are examined using both functional and experiential dimensions of retail brand association. The results illustrate the salient role of the consumer …

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Donor Motivation To Ncaa Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Athletic Departments, Daniel White Jan 2016

Donor Motivation To Ncaa Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Athletic Departments, Daniel White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Are Tax Exemptions For "Churches" A Blessing Or A Curse For Taxpayers?, Hannah Bauman Jan 2016

Are Tax Exemptions For "Churches" A Blessing Or A Curse For Taxpayers?, Hannah Bauman

Honors Theses

This paper focuses on the rules and requirements governing the participation of religious organizations as defined in IRC § 501(c)(3) in the political process. Included in this is a study of historical events and case law both for and against the participation of religious organizations in politics.

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The Relationship Of Corporate Financial Performance And Innovation Among Manufacturing Industries, Charlaine T. Chong, Samantha R. Chua, Ma. Catrina S. Dy, Antonio Miguel E. Villavicencio Jan 2016

The Relationship Of Corporate Financial Performance And Innovation Among Manufacturing Industries, Charlaine T. Chong, Samantha R. Chua, Ma. Catrina S. Dy, Antonio Miguel E. Villavicencio

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

Innovation is becoming a critical determinant of the survival and advancement of firms. Despite this realization, there is a dearth of literature that tackles the subject matter and its specific role in corporate settings remains vague. Using corporate data on East and Southeast Asian manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2013, this study aims to identify the impact of corporate financial performance on research and development (R&D) expenditure as a measure of innovation. On the whole, the researchers utilized random effects (REM) and fixed effects (FEM) models to establish the relationship between R&D and corporate performance. The researchers, then, identified the …

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Mutual Funds’ Soft Dollar Arrangements: Determinants, Impact On Shareholder Wealth, And Relation To Governance, Yaman Ö. Erzurumlu, Vladimir Kotomin Jan 2016

Mutual Funds’ Soft Dollar Arrangements: Determinants, Impact On Shareholder Wealth, And Relation To Governance, Yaman Ö. Erzurumlu, Vladimir Kotomin

Faculty Publications – Finance, Insurance, and Law

Mutual fund advisers either expense the cost of research and other services or pay for them with soft dollars. This study is the first to use actual soft dollar and total brokerage commission figures for a large number of funds and to examine how soft dollars are linked to mutual fund governance. Employing a survivorship bias-free sample of actively managed US mutual funds, we find that higher soft dollar and total brokerage commissions are associated with higher advisory fees but not with higher risk-adjusted fund returns. These findings suggest that mutual fund shareholders, on average, do not benefit from the …

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Faculty Perceptions Of Condensed Online Learning In Higher Education, Harold Irvin Mellieon, Jr. Jan 2016

Faculty Perceptions Of Condensed Online Learning In Higher Education, Harold Irvin Mellieon, Jr.

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In the past 10 years the realm of distance and online education has been expanding very fast. With the help of the Internet, it has cut the need for a student to be in the same space as the instructor in order to receive information and be assessed for learning. As more universities are using distance-learning platforms, faculty members are having issues adjusting and being successful. While the educational landscape continues to be reformed with technology in the United States, there are individuals and institutions that are engaging in distance learning to better serve a larger population of students. It …

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Retention Of Institutional Memory Via Knowledge Management: Perceptions Regarding The Effectiveness Of Corporate Approaches Applied In Higher Education, Sonya Yvette Marsh Jan 2016

Retention Of Institutional Memory Via Knowledge Management: Perceptions Regarding The Effectiveness Of Corporate Approaches Applied In Higher Education, Sonya Yvette Marsh

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Research has shown that private industry has a better grasp on knowledge management concepts and practices than in the higher education arena. Given the internal and external challenges facing colleges and universities, the processes and systems associated with knowledge management could serve as a resource for performance improvement and greater levels of effectiveness and efficiency. This phenomenological study was conducted to determine the perceptions and perspectives of deans regarding the usefulness and value of implementing knowledge management best practices typically employed by organizations in the private sector. Four research questions guided this study: 1) What level of awareness exists of …

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Competencies Of Outstanding Executive Coaches: A Grounded Theory Approach, Kent Mayo Blumberg Jan 2016

Competencies Of Outstanding Executive Coaches: A Grounded Theory Approach, Kent Mayo Blumberg

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The personal, business, and executive coaching industry is large and growing. In spite of the size and growth of the industry, the coaching research literature reveals a lack of understanding about the competencies of outstanding executive coaches. This grounded-theory study sought to discover a model of executive coach competencies, through in-depth interviews with coaches rated as outstanding by a large purchaser of coaching services. Sixteen coaches participated in the recorded and transcribed interviews. A line-by-line analysis of the transcripts led to a competency model for executive coaching. For the coaching research community, this study will fill a key gap in …

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Essays On Empirical Asset Pricing, Mu-Shu Yun Jan 2016

Essays On Empirical Asset Pricing, Mu-Shu Yun

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This work contains three essays on empirical pricing. In the first essay, I propose to re-examine the evidence on mutual fund managers' illiquidity and volatility timing ability by using a holdings-based approach, which is free from the artificial timing bias occurred in the traditional return-based timing method. Through testing the timing evidence by the holdings approach, I am able to know to what degree the results in the literature are biased by no-information reasons. In the second essay, I investigate mutual fund managers' skills from their reactions to the observable market condition, which is a relatively overlooked dimension in the …

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Essays In Corporate Equity Transactions, James David Kelly Jan 2016

Essays In Corporate Equity Transactions, James David Kelly

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation presents two essays dealing with corporate equity transactions. The first essay concerns an equity issuing transaction, the initial public offering (IPO), and specifically lockups, which restrict sales by pre-IPO shareholders. We improve upon the methodology for testing theory related to lockup length through the use of a multinomial logit as well as explore the reasons for and implications of multiple lockup agreements. We find that multiple lockups are associated with dual class equity structures, high book-to-market values, and more secondary shares offered. Offerings that include multiple lockups are more likely to deviate in (weighted average) length from the …

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A Phenomenological Study Of Louisiana 4-H Agents Perceived Job Expectations, Renee Naquin Castro Jan 2016

A Phenomenological Study Of Louisiana 4-H Agents Perceived Job Expectations, Renee Naquin Castro

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions related to job expectations as described by 4-H agents in the state of Louisiana. The study explored feelings, skills and knowledge associated with job expectations. This study used a qualitative approach to examine perceptions related to job expectations. A phenomenological study captured the essence of this experience. The participants for this study included LSU AgCenter Extension 4-H agents who work in different parishes located in the state of Louisiana. The state is divided into five regions divided into parishes. Initially two agents from each region were identified to take part in …

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