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Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies : An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area

Belzil, Christian - 2012

This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...

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A Theory of Expert Leadership

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2010

employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona - 2009

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...

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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - 2022

Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...

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The Gender Gap in Top Jobs the Role of Overconfidence

Adamecz, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings, and also have more job security and better career trajectories. Recent literature has raised the possibility that some of this gap may be attributable to women not "leaning in"...

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Leaders in Juvenile Crime

Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2022

This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and criminal decisions depend on the geodesic distance to the leader in his or her network of social...

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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes : A Large Field Study of Managers

Eriksson, Tor - 2017

-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Working Hours and Top Management Appointments : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2018

are more beneficial for career advancement.Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them …

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