Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...

Objective: The objective of the article is to identify character strengths that contribute to one's success at various stages of the development of an entrepreneurial venture: opportunity recognition, the refinement of business concept, resource acquisition, survival, and growth. Research Design...

Purpose - Storytelling is considered an effective leadership behavior. However, research on storytelling’s effects on followers is scarce and disconnected from leadership theory. This paper aims to explore the perspectives of both leaders and followers with a focus on interaction-based...

Leadership is often recognized as a major driver for successful team effectiveness. However, even weak leadership may show good team performance, and it is worth studying how weak leadership can be helped and complemented by followership. To investigate this paradoxical mechanism behind...

Objective: Leaders differ in their personalities from non-leaders. However, when do these differences emerge? Are leaders "born to be leaders" or does their personality change in preparation for a leadership role and due to increasing leadership experience? Method: Using data from the German...

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...

The main aim of this empirical research was to classify the profiles of executives of Spanish companies. We classified the executives' profiles based on two key factors of innovation: knowledge management and emotional intelligence. The sample comprised study 241 executives of Spanish companies,...

Leading across national borders is a challenge, partly due to the cultural differences among employees in different locations. We investigate this dynamic for employees of a Swiss financial services company located in Switzerland and in Poland by surveying employees about their leadership...

Throughout history, societies have been beset by disasters that took them by surprise, often with widespread and devastating consequences. When crops, animals, or people began dying with unusual frequency, especially when the causes were not observable, people often failed to respond, responded...

This article provides a primer and guide to establishing a sustainable Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for countries about to embark on establishing or creating their sovereign funds for the first time, in terms of the foundational best practice infrastructure, governance and sustainability...

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a %u201Cglass ceiling%u201D, whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about...

Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of political institutions, organizations and many instances of social and economic reform. Why are some leaders able to take advantage of opportunities to successfully catalyze large-scale change while others fail? In this paper we argue...

This article recaptures the philosophy of Nyerere and the idea of Ujamaa (familyhood) in modern African socialism. Nyerere’s political idea for Tanzania centred on the creation of an egalitarian socialist society based on cooperative agriculture, racial and tribal harmony, as well as...

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,...

"Packed with self-assessments, applications, and exercises, Leadership: Theory, Application, and Skill Development 7e offers a highly practical introduction to leadership theories and concepts. Bestselling author Robert N. Lussier and Christopher F. Achua provide integrated coverage of global,...

"This book offers a variety of perspectives on the multiple ways in which leaders of diverse backgrounds embody servant leadership and amplify this narrative of equity on a daily basis, investigating the complex relationship between organizations and leadership structure in an effort to examine...

This article explains why leadership-as-practice development (LAPD) is a preferred leadership development approach in the contemporary digital era. Rather than dwelling on generic leader competencies that may not apply to the setting, learning is brought into “lived” (not simulated)...

This paper aims to explore the role of a visionary leader in rebuilding the city's civilization dubbed the ghost town as a result of being abandoned by its inhabitants because of the cessation of mining activity in Sawahlunto City. This mayor-level visionary leader's role is considered...

A micromanager "obsesses" over minor details. We consider a simple principal-agentmodel where the agent produces output using primary and secondary effort, where secondary effort is less productive. We say the principal micromanages when she monitors secondary effort. We show that the principal...

Spitzensportlern werden in der Literatur ähnliche Persönlichkeitseigenschaften wie Führungskräften in der Wirtschaft zugeschrieben. Unter Nutzung des Fünf- Faktoren-Modells der Persönlichkeit lässt sich in einer geringen Anzahl an Studien im deutschsprachigen Raum für beide Gruppen ein...