Advances in Management Accounting

Advances in Management Accounting
Author: Chris Akroyd
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2023-01-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1803820330

Volume 34 of Advances in Management Accounting uses a variety of methods, from experiments to surveys, to build upon existing knowledge within the management accounting discipline.

The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research

The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research
Author: Theresa Libby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317488008

Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences, and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades. This far-reaching and reliable collection provides a definitive resource on current knowledge in this new approach, as well as providing a guide to the development and implementation of a Behavioural Accounting Research project. The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research covers a full range of theoretical, methodological and statistical approaches relied upon by behavioural accounting researchers, giving the reader a good grounding in both theoretical perspectives and practical applications. The perspectives cover a range of countries and contexts, bringing in seminal chapters by an international selection of behavioural accounting scholars, including Robert Libby and William R. Kinney, Jr. This book is a vital introduction for Ph.D. students as well as a valuable resource for established behavioural accounting researchers.

Advanced Economic Theory

Advanced Economic Theory
Author: Tanner Wilkerson
Publisher: Scientific e-Resources
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-04-08
Genre:
ISBN: 1839472103

Economics is a social science which deals with human wants and their satisfaction. It is mainly concerned with the way in which a society chooses to employ its scarce resources which have alternative uses, for the production of goods for present and future consumption. The theory of factor pricing is concerned with the principles according to which the price of each factor of production is determined and distributed. The distribution of factors of production can be of two types, namely personal and functional. Personal distribution is concerned with the distribution of income among different individuals. Public finance deals with the economics of government. It studies mainly about the income and expenditure of government. So we have to study about different aspects relating to taxation, public expenditure, public debt and so on. Oligopoly falls between two extreme market structures, perfect competition and monopoly. Oligopoly occurs when a few firms dominate the market for a good or service. This implies that when there are a small number of competing firms, their marketing decisions exhibit strong mutual interdependence. By mutual interdependence we mean that a firm's action say of setting the price has a noticeable effect on its rival firms and they are likely to react in the some way. Each firm considers the possible reaction of rivals to its price and product development decisions. In economics and particularly in industrial organization, market power is the ability of a firm to profitably raise the market price of a good or service over marginal cost. In perfectly competitive markets, market participants have no market power. A firm with total market power can raise prices without losing any customers to competitors. Market participants that have market power are therefore sometimes referred to as "e;price makers"e; or "e;price setters"e;, while those without are sometimes called "e;price takers"e;. Significant market power occurs when prices exceed marginal cost and long run average cost, so the firm makes profit. This unique work treats economic growth and development in terms of a theory which is applicable to an economy in the post-industrial, developing, and emerging stages.

Compensation

Compensation
Author: Barry Gerhart
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761921079

`Gerhart and Rynes provide a thorough, comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation. Their insights regarding the integration of economic, psychological and management perspectives are particularly enlightening. This text provides an invaluable tool for those interested in advancing our understanding of compensation practices' - Alison Barber, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State UniversityCompensation provides a comprehensive, research-based review of both the determinants and effects of compensation. Combining theory and research from a variety of disciplines, authors Barry Gerhart and Sara Rynes examine the three major compensation decisions - pay level, pay structure and pay delivery systems.Revealing the impact of different compensation policies, this interdisciplinary volume examines: the relationship between performance-based pay and intrinsic motivation; implications of individual pay differentials for team or unit performance; the consequences of pay for performance policies; effect sizes and practical significance of compensation findings; and directions for future research.Compensation considers why organizations pay people the way they do and how various pay strategies influence the success of organizations. Critically evaluating areas where research is inconsistent with common beliefs, Gerhart and Rynes explore the motivational effects of compensation.Primarily intended for graduate students in human resource management, psychology, and organizational behaviour courses, this book is also an invaluable reference for compensation management consultants and organizational development specialists.

Handbook of Labor Economics

Handbook of Labor Economics
Author: Orley Ashenfelter
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444534504

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics.

Evaluating and Rewarding the Quality of Teachers: International Practices

Evaluating and Rewarding the Quality of Teachers: International Practices
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264034358

This book identifies good practices in the design and implementation of evaluation and teacher incentive systems from various perspectives through formulation, stakeholder negotiation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up.

Field Experiments in Managerial Accounting Research

Field Experiments in Managerial Accounting Research
Author: Sofia M. Lourenço
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781680836288

Field Experiments in Managerial Accounting Research is a comprehensive review of this topic. Field experiments promise to be a useful method in managerial accounting research.

Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets

Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets
Author: Pietro Garibaldi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780191535727

Personnel economics, the use of economics for studying human resource issues, is becoming a standard course in business and economics departments around the world. Indeed, after being successfully introduced in North American business schools, the teaching of personnel economics is now growing in Europe and in the rest of the world. Yet, most of the traditional analysis of personnel economics assumes a perfectly competitive labour market, a situation in which wages are fully flexible and dismissals can take place at no cost. Such a setting is inappropriate for most European markets, where wage rigidity and wage compression are widespread phenomena, and where employment protection legislation is very stringent. Personnel Economics in Imperfect Labour Markets aims to describe key personnel issues when firms and human resource managers act in highly regulated labour markets. Written to be accessible to students, the book provides original answers to questions which have previously been left to specialized academic journals. Should hiring take place under temporary or permanent contracts? How can we provide compensation related incentives when minimum wages are binding? How de we solve the employment/hours trade-off? These questions and more are discussed within the text.

Incentives for Collaboration and Competition

Incentives for Collaboration and Competition
Author: Jonas Heite
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658292318

Individuals and firms can improve their performance through collaboration and competition. However, it is still an open question how collaboration and competition schemes can be optimally designed and incentivized in order to exploit their full potential. Jonas Heite investigates this question by assessing efforts to stimulate R&D collaboration and by examining properties as well as underlying mechanisms (e.g., effort, risk, confidence and stress) of ability configurations in contests. Based on three large-scale economic studies covering laboratory, field and natural experiments, the author applies novel and sophisticated econometric methods to provide causal empirical evidence that yields important implications for policymakers, managers and researchers.

The Theory of the Firm

The Theory of the Firm
Author: Nicolai J. Foss
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9780415196390