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Bjerke, Björn - 1999

How do business leaders think as a result of their national culture? This book provides a discussion and comparative analysis of five major cultures-- American, Arab, Chinese, Japanese and Scandinavian--and how they reveal themselves in business practice

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The quest for a general theory of leadership

Goethals, George R. (contributor); … - 2006

In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the...

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Judgment and leadership : a multidisciplinary approach to concepts, practice, and development

Kayes, Anna B. (ed.); Kayes, D. Christopher (ed.) - 2021

, psychology, political theory, international policy, adult learning theory, management and organizational studies, philosophy …

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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...

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The Effect of Managers on Systematic Risk

Schoar, Antoinette - 2020

Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in explaining heterogeneity in firm exposures to systematic risk. These differences in systematic risk are partially explained by managers' corporate strategies, such as their...

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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach

Lazear, Edward P. - 2010

A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...

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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment

Blinder, Alan S. - 2007

In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...

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Inventing leadership : the challenge of democracy

Wren, J. Thomas - 2007

The classical ideal of the leader -- Plato -- Thomas Aquinas -- Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- James Harrington -- The implicit theories of the classical republicans -- Toward a new implicit theory and a new...

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Extreme leadership : leaders, teams and situations outside the norm

Hurley-Hanson, Amy E. (contributor); … - 2013

scenarios, offering a fresh perspective on both leadership research and management practice. This groundbreaking volume features … expert contributions from across the globe by both management scholars and business leaders. Divided into three main parts … and management studies, as well as managers, executives and other corporate business leaders …

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The quest for moral leaders : essays on leadership ethics

Ciulla, Joanne B. (contributor); … - 2005

The quest for moral leaders is both a personal quest that takes place in the hearts and minds of leaders and a pursuit by individuals, groups, organizations, communities and societies for leaders who are both ethical and effective. The contributors to this volume, all top scholars in leadership...

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