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The current research addresses the psychological benefits of superstitious rituals in top sport, examining the circumstances under which top-class sportsmen are especially committed to enacting rituals prior to a game (ritual commitment). Consistent with hypotheses, findings revealed that ritual...
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In line with romantic views on leadership, leaders are traditionally held responsible for any kind of ethical … leadership as ethical when the leader takes the collective into account, while only focusing on own gains is largely regarded as … self-construal and thus ultimately the degree to which ethical leadership is enacted. …
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then integrate the notion of Implicit Leadership and Followership Theories (ILTs and IFTs) to argue that the currencies of …
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Research on work values shows that respectful leadership is highly desired by employees. On the applied side, however …, the extant research does not offer many insights as to which concrete leadership behaviours are perceived by employees as … indications of respectful leadership. Thus, to offer such insights, we collected and content analyzed employees’ narrations of …
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: good leadership gives enthusiastic and motivated employees, which gives satisfied customers and delivers good business …
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Leadership implies power. We argue, from a social embodiment perspective, that thinking about power involves mental … a leader’s box in an organization chart and of a leader picture into a team picture. Implications for leadership …
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Ideals (or ideal values) help people to navigate in social life. They indicate at a very fundamental level what people are concerned about, what they strive for, and what they want to be affiliated with. Transferring this to a leader-follower analysis, our first Study (N = 306) confirms that...
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Financial theory, resource-based theory and access to deal flow are used to explain syndication practices among European venture capital (VC) firms. The desire to share risk and increase portfolio diversification is a more important motive for syndication than the desire to access additional...
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A buy-out is a fundamental change in the structure of ownership that may affect the way employee relations develop within an organisation. Little is known about the impact of buyouts upon employee relations. This paper aims to address this gap. We focus on two main questions. First, what are the...
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The impact of management buy-outs (MBO) on strategy and management control systems (MCS) is little understood. Previous research by Jones (1992) focused on efficiency-enhancing buy-outs that were a feature of the early development of the market. However, MBOs are heterogeneous and more recent...
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