Management Performance
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LI, Mingyu
(Dis)trust in AI Management: The Role of Benevolence
Managerial duties are increasingly fulfilled by artificial intelligence (AI). This may cause difficulties in roles requiring high emotional engagement, according to HKUST’s Mingyu Li and T. Bradford Bitterly. Lacking empathy, AI is viewed as less benevolent and trustworthy than humans, highlighting the need for organizations to deploy it carefully. As the AI ... Read More
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VENKATESH, Viswanath
SPOHRER, Kai
CHAN, Frank K Y
ARORA, Ankur
HOEHLE, Hartmut
VENKATRAMAN, Srinivasan
Enhancing Developer Satisfaction in Agile Development Teams
Does equality really lead to happiness in information systems development (ISD) teams? To date, research on leadership in ISD teams has assumed that all developers are treated equally by their team leader, ignoring the power of differentiated leader–member exchange (LMX) to enhance team and project outcomes. Filling this important research gap, James Y. L ... Read More
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EDMANS, Alex
FANG, Vivian W.
Vesting Equity Causes CEO Short-termism
The “short-termism” induced by executive pay schemes is a major problem for firms and investors. Allen H. Huang of HKUST, together with overseas colleagues, provides important new insights into the negative consequences of executive myopia. The researchers examined the share repurchasing and mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) behavior of firms whose CEOs have ... Read More
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JIANG, Xu
Managerial Myopia: A Prisoner’s Dilemma Caused by Regulations
A rule designed to protect investors may encourage managerial short-termism, to the detriment of firms. This sobering finding comes from a study led by HKUST’s Yan Xiong. According to Xiong and a U.S. colleague, the American government is tying firms’ hands with the requirement to disclose managers’ pay offers. The paper shows how managers become more myopic ... Read More
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JIANG, Xu
Managerial Myopia: A Prisoner’s Dilemma Caused by Regulations
A rule designed to protect investors may encourage managerial short-termism, to the detriment of firms. This sobering finding comes from a study led by HKUST’s Yan Xiong. According to Xiong and a U.S. colleague, the American government is tying firms’ hands with the requirement to disclose managers’ pay offers. The paper shows how managers become more myopic ... Read More
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LI, Yixuan
SHAO, Yiduo
WANG, Mo
FANG, Yanran
LI, Chang
How an Inclusive Organizational Climate Promotes Knowledge Management and Innovation
A more diverse workforce can provide an organization with a broader talent base and a wider range of knowledge and perspectives. Recent trends of increasing globalization, migration, and aging have enhanced workplace diversity in terms of age, gender, and region of origin to an unprecedented degree. Thus, argue HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and colleagues, it ... Read More
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WANG, Shixin
ZHANG, Jiawei
Rigorous Validation of Flexible Manufacturing
Research by Xuan Wang of HKUST reveals how large manufacturers can benefit from flexible production systems. In collaboration with US-based scholars, Wang shows that the right kind of flexibility design allows firms with multiple plants and products to adapt to demand uncertainties. By using the methods presented in the paper, such firms can dodge the traps ... Read More
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YAN, Yan
ZHANG, Jingjing
“Small Worlds” and Intellectual Property Protection
Multinational enterprises (NMEs) operate in vastly different international environments. The intellectual property (IP) held by their foreign subsidiaries is thus at risk of appropriation by outsiders—sometimes even more at risk than the IP of the parent company. While legal and other external measures are obviously important to reduce such risk, Jiatao Li ... Read More
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WANG, Rencheng
Bundling Strategy Benefits Firms and Investors
Financial analysts are crucial information intermediaries in capital markets. Their consensus earnings estimates are widely used to assess firm performance. Given the market influence of financial analysts, managers have an incentive to issue earnings guidance to help analysts update their earnings expectations. Firms commonly issue earnings guidance at the ... Read More
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DEFOND, Mark
HU, Jinshuai
LI, Siqi
Fair Value Accounting Impedes Performance Evaluation
“Fair value” is a gold standard in valuation, but there is no consensus on its usefulness in other areas, such as evaluating management performance. HKUST’s Mingyi Hung and her colleagues settle this dispute in important new work, contending that fair value accounting may actually be unhelpful when it comes to contracting. This finding is particularly ... Read More
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