We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...

The irresponsible and insensitive behavior of business leaders worldwide shows that business is an underprofessionalized occupation today. Unless future international managers demonstrate that they serve the common good in their daily practice, the legitimacy and moral standing of the business...

The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence of the effect of male CEO's facial masculinity on leverage, to identify the effect of male CEO's facial masculinity on leverage. This study uses a quantitative approach with a population and research sample using companies on the...

This study aims to prove the consistency of Agency Theory, Behavioral Consistency Theory and Upper Echelon Theory as a solution to explain the role of research & development in mediating the influence of male CEO masculinity on earnings management. This study uses a quantitative approach with a...

Purpose: This study aims to analyze major concerns facing the Palestinian local governments in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in managing local governments.Methodology: A special questionnaire was developed to collect the perception of the municipalities'...

Using employment history of over 17,000 directors of non-financial firms, we find that boards with directors who have executive experience in a commercial bank compensate CEOs with higher inside debt. This result is consistent with arguments that professional experience shapes decision-making....

The chief information officer (CIO) is responsible for bridging the gap between two critical domains—technology and business, making the CIO's job uniquely different from other executives. As digital technologies become increasingly important to firms' competitive success, boards of directors...

This paper replicates the results of the survey of experienced executives reported in Section IV of Seybert (2010). Seybert retracted the survey data from the originally published article due to concerns about the source of the data. I survey 79 experienced executives to elicit their beliefs...

This study addresses the relationship between incentive compensation and complex outsourcing in somewhat different vein. The agency theory suggests, firstly that managers are constantly faced with allocation of efforts and choices and within this context their decisions are driven by incentive...

The UK broadcast media landscape provides an interesting context to understand and explore the competitive dynamics of media organisations'. As an industry characterised by uncertainty and turbulence, this paper considers the process by which broadcast media organisations develop their...