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Biel, Pedro Rey; Huck, Steffen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the mechanics of ``leading by example'' in teams. Leadership is beneficial for the entire team … when agents are conformists, i.e., dislike effort differentials. We also show how leadership can arise endogenously and … discuss what type of leader benefits a team most. …

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STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP:THE PLATFORM FOR POLITICAL SUCCESS

Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2004

through continual work and study. The best leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills. …

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Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example

Hermalin, Benjamin E. - EconWPA - 1997

This paper explores leadership within organizations. Leadership is distinct from authority because following a leader …

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Should top universities be led by top researchers, and are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

This paper addresses the question: should the world’s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world’s top 100 universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by...

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Should Research Universities be Led by Top Researchers? Part 1: Are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

If the best universities in the world – who have the widest choice of candidates – systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...

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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice

Kimble, Chris; Barlow, Alexis; Li, Feng - EconWPA - 2005

some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of trust and social bonding … to the functioning of such teams. It reports on the use of a 'Community of Practice' in a virtual team and argues that … we live and the electronic world of virtual team working. …

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Modelling IT use: an archetypal approach

Vaujany, François-Xavier de - EconWPA - 2005

Since Barley’s use of Giddens in 1986, structurational approaches have become an important theoretical perspective within the IS research community. This paper introduces an intermediate theory of this stream through three socio-technical archetypes, i.e. stylised socio-technical situations...

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