Pay Disparities Within Top Management Groups: Evidence of Harmful Effects on Performance of High-Technology Firms

2005 | Organization Science | Citations: 0

Authors: Siegel, Phyllis A.; Hambrick, Donald C.

Abstract: This study examines the interactive effect of technological intensiveness and to ... Expand

Abstract: This study examines the interactive effect of technological intensiveness and top management group (TMG) pay disparity on firm performance. Drawing on two literatures--task interdependence and group rewards--we argue that: (a) technological intensiveness imposes a considerable requirement for multiway information processing and collaboration among senior executives of a firm, and (b) collaboration is diminished when large pay disparities exist. Hence, TMG pay disparity should be more detrimental to subsequent performance of high-technology firms than low-technology firms. We construct seven different measures of executive pay disparity based on three major types of pay disparity (vertical, horizontal, and overall) and use a proprietary data set to test our hypotheses. The results provide consistent support for our hypotheses, thereby suggesting important implications for scholars and designers of executive compensation. Collapse

Topics: organizational productivity research and development task interdependence missing data database system

Methods: regression analysis method cross sectional research statistical hypothesis test descriptive statistic Goldfeld–Quandt test

Does the Internet Change the Competition of Scholarly Communities? -- Evidence from a Citation Analysis

2004 | Americas Conference on Information Systems | Citations: 0

Authors: Ma, Meng

Abstract: Recent research on search costs in electronic markets documents that the wide us ... Expand

Abstract: Recent research on search costs in electronic markets documents that the wide use of Internet has reduced consumer search costs and has increased market efficiency. This study, considering scholarly publications as a special type of product, investigates the Internet’s impact on knowledge usage and transfer in academic communities. Based on the work on search theory and knowledge transfer, this paper proposes that lower search costs of scientific publications can increase scholars’ knowledge usage and change their capability or means to compete in the scientific marketplace for audiences. Scholarly articles not freely available online may be quoted less because of the easy and free access to a growing number of substitutable publications. Analysis of randomly selected publications from the ACM digital library provides preliminary support for my propositions. In addition, results also suggest that the Internet has a major impact on the speed of knowledge transfer among scholars. Collapse

Topics: internet technology knowledge sharing

Methods: co-citation analysis Park test Student's t-test linear regression analysis parametric test

Theories: economic search theory