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Women Mangers Through the Paradigm of Power and Gender Awareness

Balog, Alenka Zuraj - In: Management 2 (2007) 1, pp. 65-77

Women leadership and women leading in educational management can be monitored and interpreted through the lenses of a … of the basic concepts of leadership. The second aspect measures the recognition of gender consciousness in women leaders …

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Should Research Universities be Led by Top Researchers? Part 1: Are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

If the best universities in the world – who have the widest choice of candidates – systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...

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The benefits of leadership in the banking deposit market: A comparison between Cournot and Stackelberg

Ruiz-Porras, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze the effects of leadership in banking when oligopolistic competition exists in the market of deposits. We … leader-follower strategies). Our main findings suggest that there are private and social benefits associated to leadership …. Moreover, leadership enhances financial stability and efficiency in banking. …

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What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model

Berdugo, Binyamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal …

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How to have results from Conversations?

Benchimol, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The difficulty of emergence is not the complexity but the recursivity of its working. That is why there are so many debates to know whether structure generates strategy or strategy generates structure. In fact all we know is that networking allows conversations and that conversations help...

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Leadership by Confidence in Teams

Kobayashi, Hajime; Suehiro, Hideo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

a stable equilibrium. This result implies that leadership in teams emerges through the leader's signaling incentives …

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Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.

Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

I develop a model of group decision-making, in which a committee generates proposals and holds open discussions, but the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication processes are studied that combine both cheap talk statements...

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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor...

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

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