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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover

Carter, Susan Payne - 2016

Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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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 …

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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment

Blinder, Alan S. - 2007

manipulate the size and leadership structure of monetary policy decisionmaking. We find no evidence of superior performance by …

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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

. shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced TMT leader departures …. While most firms do not experience smooth transitions to stable shared TMT leadership, a focus on value creation, in … conjunction with talent recruitment and promotion, enabled some firms to achieve stable shared leadership in spite of discord …

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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children

Macours, Karen - 2016

Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...

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