THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONAL INCENTIVES

被引:295
作者
LAMBERT, RA [1 ]
LARCKER, DF [1 ]
WEIGELT, K [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV PENN,UNIV MUSEUM,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19104
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10.2307/2393375
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
To improve understanding and design of organizational incentives, we used confidential compensation data obtained for four distinct organizational levels (ranging from plant manager to corporate chief executive officer) to evaluate the ability of tournament, managerial power, and agency theories to explain these observed compensation data. Our results suggest that organizational incentives are most appropriately characterized by a combination of these models, rather than being completely described by a single theoretical description.
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页码:438 / 461
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