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Enabler für agile Wertschöpfungsprozesse

Moisa, Michelle; Morar, Dominik - 2015

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Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …

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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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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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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football

Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...

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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

leader’ model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of … selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other team members. Yet …, inequity aversion has no significant impact on leadership styles. Elected leaders have a higher propensity than exogenously …

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