96 research outputs found
Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
Empirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executives’ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executives’ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
Assessing managerial power theory: A meta-analytic approach to understanding the determinants of CEO compensation
Although studies about the determinants of CEO compensation are ubiquitous, the balance of
evidence for one of the more controversial theoretical approaches, managerial power theory,
remains inconclusive. The authors provide a meta-analysis of 219 U.S.-based studies, focusing
on the relationships between indicators of managerial power and levels of CEO compensation
and CEO pay-performance sensitivities. The results indicate that managerial power theory is
well equipped for predicting core compensation variables such as total cash and total
compensation but less so for predicting the sensitivity of pay to performance. In most situations
where CEOs are expected to have power over the pay setting process, they receive significantly
higher levels of total cash and total compensation. In contrast, where boards are expected to
have more power, CEOs receive lower total cash and total compensation. In addition, powerful
directors also appear to be able to establish tighter links between CEO compensation and firm
performance and can accomplish this even in the face of powerful CEOs. The authors discuss
the implications for theory and research regarding the determinants of executive compensation
A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research
The US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke convened major stakeholders in June 2012 to discuss how to improve the methodological reporting of animal studies in grant applications and publications. The main workshop recommendation is that at a minimum studies should report on sample-size estimation, whether and how animals were randomized, whether investigators were blind to the treatment, and the handling of data. We recognize that achieving a meaningful improvement in the quality of reporting will require a concerted effort by investigators, reviewers, funding agencies and journal editors. Requiring better reporting of animal studies will raise awareness of the importance of rigorous study design to accelerate scientific progress
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