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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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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 … rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …

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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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Leadership in Collective Action

Esteban, Joan; Hauk, Esther - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008

We extend the model of collective action in which groups compete for a budged by endogenizing the group platform, namely the specific mixture of public/private good and the distribution of the private good to group members which can be uniform or performance-based. While the group-optimal...

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Research Contributions to Personality at work

Deller, Juergen (contributor) - Rainer Hampp Verlag

leadership / Personality and informational capabilities …

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Viewing the Leadership Narrative through Alternate Lenses: An Autoethnographic Investigation

Parry, Ken W. - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 19 (2008) 1+2, pp. 126-147

leadership. The present article is written in the autoethnographic style. The original narrative work is re-examined through the … leadership if they are plausible to the intended audience, give all organizational members an empowered part in the story, have a … moral to the story, and have a happy ending. The overarching theme that is proposed is of leadership as the generation of …

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