We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managersplay in motivating employees through their attitude towards employees. We modela manager's attitude as her perception about employees' abilities of successfullycompleting challenging tasks. We show that a positive attitude...

This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>European Economic Review</I> (2013). Vol. 60, pp. 91-104.<P> We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managersplay in motivating employees through their attitude towards employees. We modela manager's attitude as her perception about...</p></i>

We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managers

We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managersplay in motivating employees through their attitude towards employees. We modela manager's attitude as her perception about employees' abilities of successfullycompleting challenging tasks. We show that a positive attitude...

We find that the negative relation between bidder announcement returns and bidder cash reserve is present only when a bidder has a low asset tangibility. We further find that cash-rich companies acquire less, especially in the past two decades. After acquisitions, cash-rich bidders spend more on...

Given government's budget cuts and the spread of free market economy mechanisms, some Arab countries opened the field of higher education, which was a state monopoly, to the private sector. Many private universities and colleges have been established in these countries. It has been more than a...