OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of financial compensation on pediatric asthma research participation decision-making and determine whether perceptions of fair compensation differed for parents and adolescents, lower and higher income participants, and compensation-informed and uninformed participants in minimal and above minimal risk research. STUDY DESIGN Adolescents (n = 36) with asthma and...

This paper investigates the role of non-financial performance measures in executive compensation. Using a sample of airline firms we document that passenger load factor, an important non-financial measure for firms in this industry, is positively associated with CEO cash compensation. This association is significant after controlling for traditional accounting performance measures (return on as...

OBJECTIVE It was hypothesized that, for people with severe traumatic injuries, no association between long term health status and receiving financial compensation would be detected. DESIGN Two prospective cohort studies. SUBJECTS A group of people with severe traumatic brain injury (n = 132) and a group of people with traumatic spinal cord injury (n = 58). METHODS Health status and functi...

Previous studies have shown that when a recipient suffers from financial harm, allocators can use repair strategies that address financial or relational interests to promote relationship repair. Research to date, however, has neglected to study the effects of financial and relational strategies on relationship preservation simultaneously. In the present contribution, we examine this question. B...

When a financial damage has been inflicted, perpetrators can satisfy victims’ outcome related concerns by providing a financial compensation. Few studies have investigated, however, whether overcompensation (i.e., compensation that is greater than the damage suffered) is more beneficial than equal compensation (i.e., compensation that covers the exact damage suffered). The results of four studi...

There has been widespread public debate over the effectiveness of corporate governance practices in firms. One of the main concerns is that CEOs take advantage of accounting discretion to misreport financial information and to extract excess compensation (rents) from shareholders. Thus, the connection between CEO compensation and financial misstatements has received considerable attention. Due ...

According to the amended Drugs and Cosmetics Rules of the Government of India, participants in clinical trial are entitled to medical treatment and financial compensation in the event of permanent injury or death, but the quantum of compensation is to be decided by same Ethics Committee that sanctioned the trial in the first place. If there is a dispute regarding the amount of compensation the ...

This study examined the impact of Human Resource (HR) practices (selection, training, compensation, and appraisal) and participation on the financial performance of U.S. petrochemical refineries. Survey results from HR and Operations respondents indicated that appraisal and training were significantly related to workforce skills and that training and compensation were marginally related to work...

This paper investigates the role of non-financial performance measures in executive compensation. Using a sample of Internet firms we document that web traffic, an important nonfinancial measure for firms in the Internet industry, is positively associated with CEO total compensation and total change in CEO wealth. This association is robust to controlling for traditional financial performance m...

This paper investigates the role of non-financial performance measures in executive compensation. Using a sample of Internet firms we document that web traffic, an important nonfinancial measure for firms in the Internet industry, is positively associated with CEO total compensation and total change in CEO wealth. This association is robust to controlling for traditional financial performance m...