Leadership, Coordination, and Corporate Culture
What is the role of leaders in large organizations? We propose a model in which a leader helps to overcome a misalignment of followers' incentives that inhibits coordination, while adapting the organization to a changing environment. Good leadership requires vision and special personality traits such as conviction or resoluteness to enhance the credibility of mission statements and to effectively rally agents around them. Resoluteness allows leaders to overcome a time-consistency problem that arises from the fact that leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. However, resoluteness also inhibits bottom-up information flow from followers. The optimal level of resoluteness depends on followers' signal quality and the corporate culture of the organization. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.
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2013
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Authors: | Brunnermeier, Markus K. ; Veldkamp, Laura |
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Review of Economic Studies. - Oxford University Press. - Vol. 80.2013, 2, p. 512-537
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Oxford University Press |
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