Promote internally or hire externally? The role of gift exchange and performance measurement precision

EW Chan, JB Lill, VS Maas - Journal of Accounting Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Managers often face the choice between promoting an internal employee and hiring an
external candidate. Using an interactive experiment, we examine the drivers of managers' …

Keeping Up with the Joneses during an Economic Crisis: The Effect of Different Types of Pay Cuts on Employee Performance

MM Cheng, S Wu, D Yang - Journal of Management …, 2024 - publications.aaahq.org
Many firms implement pay cuts to reduce labor costs during organizational crises and there
are different ways to distribute pay cuts among employees. We experimentally investigate …

The Effect of Narcissism and Contract Frame on Employee Performance in the Presence of an Ex Ante Target

T Libby, W Olczak - Journal of Management Accounting …, 2024 - publications.aaahq.org
Incentive contracts containing ex ante targets are prevalent in organizations. Although prior
research indicates that contract frame has no significant impact on employee performance …

The Effects of Span of Control and Temporal Disaggregation of Performance Reports on Discretionary Performance Evaluations.

RS Ghita, VS Maas - Journal of Management Accounting …, 2024 - publications.aaahq.org
Span of control and temporal disaggregation of performance reports are two important
control system elements that jointly determine the benchmarks that managers have …