The Crisis of Corporate Leadership_2 doc

... to the rise of labor unions, the New Deal legislation, the shortage of labor due to World War II, and the post-war release of controls placed on prices and wages. Another major influence on the ... drives the United States more than other countries. The second is the uniquely American cult of the deified CEO and his entourage, making them worthy of vast sum...

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... classifications of these industries. The rate of cases of default in this group (19.5 percent of the bonds and 26.3 percent of the firms) is greater than that of the sample (9.0 percent of the bonds and ... (SIC) of the Sample The table describes the one digit standardized industrial classification of the issuers of all bonds in the sample and the...

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... eroding some of the gains of service delivery, the ideology and practice of cost recovery became more dominant in a number of ways. First, there is the question of how cost recovery influenced the ... about the number of cutoffs they had undertaken each 32 The Theory and Practice of Cost Recovery in South Africa 12 Gemini News, 22 February...

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... to monitor the use of their capital once committed (the ex-post or stewardship role of accounting information). Information asymmetry harms these two main roles of accounting. In this course ... deadline for the submission is the last day of the final exam period. PhD Program in Economics and Management Advanced Financial Accounting P...

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... globalization of the financial services industry. This book advocates the reformation of another creature of liberal capitalism, the large, limited liability joint stock company, some of the ... in the evolution of liberal capitalism. I will argue that, fortunately for liberal capitalism, the explosion in execu- tive pay is not a natural outcome of the system. It...

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... was unfortunate that the merits of this half-baked theory, that all that was needed to revive an ailing company was a “charismatic leader” and “change agent,” with a novel “mindset,” and a ... for the CEO job are: the current position of the candidate, and the performance and stature of the candidate’s company. These automatically exclude from the candidates’ poo...

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... it. 9780230_230941_09_cha07.indd 131 09/09/2009 10:02 130 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Part of the answer is that the fitness landscape of each firm is a crea- ture of the fitness landscapes of other firms. In the past, there ... project, is approaching some kind of completion. In barely a decade the dreams of the ancient librarians of Alexandria and Pergamon h...

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... means; a metamorphosis, a change of form or of character; an alteration of function or of nature. Something of the kind may occur eventually at companies that adopt the adaptive strategies advocated ... induced.” An important consequence of the idea of companies as portfolios of processes, was the death of what Ghoshal and Bartlett called the Russian doll m...

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... 10:03 10 CORPORATE REFORMATION 187 In their book The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy, 8 Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith take that crucial step and advocate the election ... that the role of the leadership is most vital,” and that without the containment of such a purpose people will “simply go their own way and the organization rapid...

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... sectors of the economy, “they altered the basic structure of these sectors and of the economy as a whole.” They did not replace the market, because their decisions were still based on estimates of ... been at the expense of their own shareholders. Encouraged by the tacit assumption that the bigger the company, the more the CEO should be paid; by their own e...

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... in the 1980s was the consequence of the arrival of shareholder value analysis and the deregulation of financial services. ■ The transformation of the CEO from the most senior “manager” to the ... get paid for the value they add or the time they work. Their income takes the form of a levy on the assets that pass through their hands, or are entrusted to their...

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... on the status of their mates. They had to judge the quality of possible mates, find allies in the tribes into which they married and improve the well-being of their children by persuading others ... things from the points of view of others. They have more empathy. They are, therefore, more likely to be conscious of, and concerned about, the effects on the moti- vat...

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... consequence of the idea of companies as portfolios of processes, was the death of what Ghoshal and Bartlett called the Russian doll model of management”; management as a neatly nested hierarchy of ... reduce the urgency of the search for a new leader, which would have the added benefit of moderating the upward pressure on CEO pay. It would reduce the risk of...

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