1 Partnering with your CEO will put you on the path to success Maintaining a strong relationship with the hospital CEO has always been important for an OR leader. In the coming year, good relations with the executive suite will be critical. Hospital executives are under greater pressure now than at any time in the last 30 years. Changes in the healthcare market are creating unprecedented challe...

Drawing upon the cultural risk perspective and writings on risk taking, this paper seeks to develop ideas relating to the effective use of school cyberspace. It is argued that some individuals respond to exaggerated, yet seductive, discourses of online risks by over-blocking, unreasonably restricting students’ Internet activity. At the same time, there are sensible, even compelling, motivations...

This paper aims to understand how firms’ asymmetric risk environment affects the CEO compensation structure. I investigate firm’s downside and upside potential differentially affect choice between cash equity stock options restricted compensation. First, show that, as (upside potential) increases, boards grant more (more compensation) less (less compensation). Second, that proportion of option ...

The percentage of S&P500 firms that offer ex-ante severance agreements to their CEOs grew from 20% in 1993 to more than 55% in 2007 despite controversial discussions on executive severance contracts in the media and academic studies. In addition, about 40% of firms offer their CEOs severance contracts with cash-only payouts. Our paper focuses on this recent spread of ex-ante CEO severance agree...

this study addresses executive compensation from shareholders perspective by empirically examining the effects of chief executive officer (ceo) compensation on firm performance subsequent to the year of compensation. three factors of ceo compensation are examined, size, total annual compensation; form percentage of total compensation comprised of cash, cash bonuses and stock; and sensitivity. t...

This paper considers the joint optimal design of CEOs’ on-the-job compensation and severance pay in a general optimal contracting framework. We obtain a novel argument for high-powered, non-linear CEO compensation such as bonus schemes and option grants that is different from existing arguments based on moral hazard and risk taking. Based on this argument, the CEO’s optimal on-the-job compensat...

"Corporate governance" includes mechanisms to monitor CEO's performance assure efficient decision adoption and maximize firm value. One of the most effective aspects is degree risk-taking. This study investigates relationship between CEO power institutional ownership with risk-taking behavior member firms Tehran Stock Exchange Iran Fara Bourse during 2010-2019 by utilizing quintile regression. ...

This paper explores people’s behavior when they are facing financial risks. Through the setting of an economics experiment, people’s willingness to bear financial risks and their tendency to impose risks on others are investigated. The experiment result shows that most people are risk-neutral or risk-averse when making decision under financial environment, and their tendency to impose risks on ...

This paper studies the consequences of regulating executive compensation at financial institutions by examining introduction UK Remuneration Code in 2010, which aimed to change decision-making horizon and risk-taking incentives bank executives. We find that, although both banks nonbanks show increased contribution sensitivity systemic risk United Kingdom post-2010, this increase is lower for ba...

Private construction businesses have grown quickly, greatly boosting China’s economic growth; nonetheless, these suffer tremendous developmental uncertainty, particularly when compared to larger state-owned businesses. The traits of the top management team (TMT) may a direct impact on how risk-taking and decision-making behaviors are exhibited by businesses, according earlier studies. majority ...