Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example

This paper explores leadership within organizations. Leadership is distinct from authority because following a leader is a voluntary rather than coerced activity of the followers. This paper considers how a leader induces rational followers to follow her in situations when the leader has incentives to mislead her followers.

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Year of publication:	1997-01-14
Authors:	Hermalin, Benjamin E.
Institutions:	EconWPA
Subject:	leadership

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Extent:	application/postscript application/pdf
Series:	Microeconomics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Type of Document - Postscript; prepared on IBM PC; to print on Postscript; pages: 38 ; figures: none 38 pages
Classification:	D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; D21 - Firm Behavior ; D29 - Production and Organizations. Other ; L29 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior. Other
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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