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Kamepalli, Sai Krishna - 2020

We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and entry in an industry (like that of digital platforms) where customers face switching costs and enjoy network externalities. The prospect of an acquisition by the incumbent platform...

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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 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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How do CEOs see their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms

Mullins, William - 2013

-family firms display a more textbook approach of shareholder-value-maximization. Finally, we find a continuum of leadership …

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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

Costa, Dora - 2011

leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able …

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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation

Graham, John R. - 2011

We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...

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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods and interacts with agents from the previous and next generations via a coordination game. Social norms emerge as patterns of behavior that are stable in part due to agents'...

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Leadership and Organizations

Alston, Eric C.; Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization …

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