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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...

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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

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Jacks-of-All-Trades? : the effect of balanced skills on team performance

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

Previous empirical studies have shown that solo entrepreneurs benefit from having balanced skills: Jacks-of-All-Trades (JATs) are better entrepreneurs than specialists are. Nowadays however, the majority of entrepreneurs start up and run ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether...

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Ability dispersion and team performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...

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Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises

Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022

attract less prosocial employees, but low-powered incentives do not alter workforce composition. Social enterprises combining …

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three … questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

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Ownership and pay in Britain

Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015

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