.... Editor's note: Accepted by Rachel M. Hayes, under the Senior Editorship of Mark L. DeFond. March 2016 February 2018 2019 executive materialism corporate social responsibility firm performance Investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become increasingly...

... in PPS across top executives as a proxy for the incentive design component shaped by an executive team's synergy profile. We model optimal PPS dispersion and use residuals from this model to measure deviations from optimal. We find that firm performance is increasing (decreasing) in the residual when PPS...

...Joshua Lee ABSTRACT This paper examines whether market participants infer negative information about future unexpected firm performance when managers adhere to predetermined scripts when responding to questions during earnings conference calls. I argue that managers respond to questions from...