This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …

experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees … vanishes when controlling for individual curiosity levels and (iii) an alternative treatment that provides subjects with …

constraints that act on these processes, leave managers with considerable power to shape their own pay arrangements. Examining the …This Paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive … power approach suggests that boards do not operate at arm’s length in devising executive compensation arrangements; rather …

of male and female managers and professionals employed in various organizations and industries in Egypt. Design … understanding of work engagement among managers and professionals and HRM more broadly in a large Muslim country. …

conceptual framework for the research, reports the results of a survey of transport managers conducted in Scotland, a coherent … and transport managers′ assessments of their firm′s senior management′s attitudes to distribution. Shows that transport … managers have a higher status in their organizations than before and greater independence of decision making. Provides profiles …

The changes required in the policies of organisations to cope with the challenges of the 1990s are discussed – managers … not only as managers per se but also as entrepreneurs, the increasing competitive muscle of the Japanese, the re …

organizational environmental management practices. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of environmental managers was conducted to … environmental practices and environmental managers' commitment to such endeavors affect the adoption of environmental practices by …

Advances in computer and telecommunications technology are providing logistics managers with a wide range of strategic … technology. Unless logistics managers take a broader strategic view of their role, these opportunities will be lost and their … companies will fall behind in the face of increasingly intense global competition. Logistics managers who seek innovative ways …