Tangible Rewards for More Than Just Productivity: Examining Canadian Public Accounting Firms' Rewards Programs*

An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Rewards Programs

We perform an empirical study to better understand two well-known vulnerability rewards programs, or VRPs, which software vendors use to encourage community participation in finding and responsibly disclosing software vulnerabilities. The Chrome VRP has cost approximately $580,000 over 3 years and has resulted in 501 bounties paid for the identification of security vulnerabilities. The Firefox ...

Getting rewards for your results: pay-for-performance programs.

ily physician in private practice in Hamburg, N.Y., a blue-collar suburb of Buffalo, and has been practicing medicine since 1977. For the past five years, he has participated with the three largest HMOs in the Buffalo area in pay-for-performance programs. From one managed care plan alone, Independent Health, he earned $20,000 in incentive bonus payments in 2002 for achieving targets in five are...

Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource allocation. We find that the pattern of policy-making reflects politicians’ self-interest. Elected councillors benefit from improved personal access to public resources. In addition, the head councillor’s group identity and residence influences public resource allocation. While el...

Narcissism in Public Accounting Firms

Similar to other characteristics, narcissism is a personality trait that varies by individuals. While the management literature has examined narcissism, there is limited research of narcissism of professionals in public accounting firms. Using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), we assess the level of narcissism in practitioners of public accounting firms by examining differences by g...

Just Rewards? Communism’s Hard Bargain with the Citizen-consumer