Demographic Variables as Determinant of Principal Managerial Efficiency

Market efficiency, managerial compensation, and real efficiency

Article history: Received 10 October 2012 Received in revised form 14 October 2013 Accepted 23 March 2014 Available online 12 April 2014 We examine how an exogenous improvement in market efficiency, which allows the stock market to obtain more precise information about the firm's intrinsic value, affects the shareholder–manager contracting problem, managerial incentives, and shareholder value. ...

Merger Efficiency and Managerial Incentives

Dimension reduction via principal variables

For many large-scale datasets it is necessary to reduce dimensionality to the point where further exploration and analysis can take place. Principal variables are a subset of the original variables and preserve, to some extent, the structure and information carried by the original variables. Dimension reduction using principal variables is considered and a novel algorithm for determining such p...

Managerial Career Success in Canadian Organizations: Is Gender a Determinant?

CIRANO Le CIRANO est une corporation privée à but non lucratif constituée en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d=une subvention d=infrastructure du ministère de l=Industrie, du Commerce, de la Science et de la Technologie, de même que des subventions et mandats ob...

Demographic Variables and Brand Associations

This research aims to mine the relationship between demographic variables and brand associations, and study the relative importance of these variables. The study is conducted on fast-food restaurant brands chains in Jordan. The result ranks and evaluates the demographic variables in relation with the brand associations for the selected sample. Discovering brand associations according to demogra...