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Featured Academic Research
Agency and Compensation:
Evidence from the Hotel Industry
By Matthew Freedman and Renata Kosova,
Cornell University
Examining employee supervision and compensation in the hotel industry, Professors Freedman and Kosova find that compared to franchised properties, company-owned hotels are:
- More likely to advertise wages above the minimum
- More likely to use lower probationary wages
- Less able to pay for performance as they monitor employees less intensively
Supervision differences due to ownership structure in this industry drive the use of performance-based incentives.
Read the full academic ICS working paper.
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