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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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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 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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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...

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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms: a regional investigation

Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 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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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2009

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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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003

We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström?s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents? unknown ability and the effort they choose. Before making second-period wage offers firms are informed...

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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2004

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...

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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms? performance. Despite an exante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms tends...

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