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To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization …
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Executive teams in U.S. firms are becoming increasingly partisan. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2020. The new fact is explained by both an increasing share of Republican executives and...
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promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …
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across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us …Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences …
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Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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When multiple forces potentially underlie discriminatory behavior, pinning down the precise sources becomes a challenge, making proposed policy solutions speculative. This study introduces an empirical approach, tightly linked to theory, to dissect two specific channels of discrimination:...
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between non-profit hospitals' management and the hospitals' intended beneficiaries, consistent with the concerns expressed by …
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We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
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This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO's pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The model...
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