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-player centralities. Leaders are mostly responsible for this effect, while bad apples have little influence. Own Katz-Bonacich centrality … experiments reveal that leadership, as measured by network centrality, mainly captures non-cognitive skills, especially patience … and competitiveness. …
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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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We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field … influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others' behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game … with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers' initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds …
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We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups … leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance. We study three potential explanations for the …
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leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …
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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 of a leader’s success in year T is that person’s own level of attainment, in the …
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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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leaders are socially concerned, while others expect to distill some personal gain, possibly of non-pecuniary nature. The … lead. Lastly, though voluntary leaders improve efficiency in their team, they are not necessarily more influential than … randomly imposed leaders. …
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between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being …
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leader’ model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an ‘expert … and industry experience. After controlling for confounding variables, teams led by leaders with extensive knowledge of the …
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