The Economics of Short-Term Performance Obsession

By RappaportAlfred. 2005

130 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The political economy debate on ‘financialization’ – a macroeconomic perspective (2009, unknown): “One problem with this view, however, is that managements whose remuneration is closely pegged to financial results and who are disciplined by the permanent threat of hostile takeovers may be subject to the problem of ‘short-term performance obsession’ ( Rappaport, 2005 ).”
• R&D Expenditure and Earnings Targets (2009, unknown): “While strategists, researchers and policy-makers have largely focused on the costs of cutting RD Rappaport, 2005 ), recent evidence from the accounting literature documents significant market-based rewards when firms report earnings numbers in excess of certain predefined thresholds (Bernard et al.”