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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

and mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable …

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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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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023

managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …

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Leader Identity and Coordination

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...

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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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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto - 2011

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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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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Female Workers, Male Managers : Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking

Rinne, Ulf - 2019

This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …

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

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

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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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