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Identifying leadership skills required in the digital age

Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - 2020

How should executives lead organisations and their employees in an increasingly digitalized business environment and what skills are needed to succeed? Although the evolution of digital technologies considerably changes working environments in organisations and creates new challenges for...

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Strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players

Deutscher, Christian; Sahm, Marco; Schneemann, Sandra; … - 2019

We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a round-robin rank-order tournament predicts that players conserve resources in a current contest to spend more in the subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the...

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Value dissonance at work

Delfino, Alexia; Espinosa, Miguel - 2025

is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues affects performance. Using survey and … teammates do not have similar performance consequences. We provide evidence consistent with a decline in both employee … often-overlooked influence of diversity in personal values on organizational performance. …

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Are male bosses bad for women's careers? : evidence from a multinational corporation

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2025

management practices and corporate culture. Analyzing performance and potential ratings, we find that manager gender only matters …

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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal … performance and mental well-being during the pandemic. …

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Designing gender equity : evidence from hiring practices

Mocanu, Tatiana - 2024

I combine novel data on job applications and hiring decisions for the universe of public sector jobs in Brazil and a natural experiment that decreased discretion in hiring to analyse how screening determines gender application and hiring gaps. I find that hiring practices have crucial gender...

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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation : evidence from Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2013

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...

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Disentangling managerial incentives from a dynamic perspective : the role of stock grants

Hili, Amal; Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2016

We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where the manager's investment effort, carried out in period 1, and her current effort, carried out in period 2, both impact the second-period profit, so that it may be difficult to...

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Wage posting as a positive selection device : theory and empirical evidence

Gartner, Hermann; Holzner, Christian - 2015

We use the German Job Vacancy Survey to investigate whether firms are able to attract more suitable applicants by offering bargain wages rather than posting fixed wages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions provided by the literature, we find that the offer to bargain over pay decreases the...

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