Truth Vs. Slack Inducing Paradox: How Does Compensation Scheme Mitigate Social Pressure on Budgetary Slack?

Budgetary slack: The Effects of Truth-Inducing Schemes on Slack and Performance

In large organizations, division managers are not necessary solely motivated by profit maximization goals but rather by some self – interest motives. These self-interest motives may explicit itself in the organization budgeting process. A control problem arises usually when division managers use their private information to make decision consistent with selfinterest rather than the interest of ...

Slack

The relationship between two consequences of budgetary controls: budgetary slack creation and managerial short-term orientation$

Previous studies have provided contradictory evidence with respect to the e€ect of rigid budgetary controls on slack and other dysfunctional behaviors. One motivation for the current study was to test whether spillover e€ects exist between two alleged dysfunctional consequences of a rigid budgetary control style: budget slack creation and managerial short-term orientation. The data support this...

Does global slack matter more than domestic slack in determining U.S. inflation?

Article history: This paper employs a struc Received 1 December 2007 Received in revised form 21 November 2008 Accepted 22 November 2008 Available online 7 December 2008

Spanners with Slack

Given a metric (V, d), a spanner is a sparse graph whose shortest-path metric approximates the distance d to within a small multiplicative distortion. In this paper, we study the problem of spanners with slack : e.g., can we find sparse spanners where we are allowed to incur an arbitrarily large distortion on a small constant fraction of the distances, but are then required to incur only a cons...