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Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership
Dur, Robert - 2019
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age
Klus, Milan - 2020
categorise leadership skills included in the existing literature and associate them with tasks, management level, and leadership …-structured interviews with executives and systematically investigate job advertisements for management positions. By triangulating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838249
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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment
Grosch, Kerstin - 2020
Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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Social Framing Effects in Leadership : Preferences or Beliefs?
Cartwright, Edward; Drouvelis, Michalis - 2021
We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level (“Wall Street” vs. “Community”) and two individual level (“First (Second) Movers” vs. “Leaders (Followers)”) frames. We find...
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Norms and the Evolution of Leaders' Followership
Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2022
In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...
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When Women Take All : Direct Election and Female Leadership
Cipullo, Davide - 2023
This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into political offices compared to indirect appointment (à la parliamentary). Exploiting the staggered phase-in across Italian municipalities of a reform to the local institutional...
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Leadership and Climate Policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
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What Do Central Bankers Do? Evidence from the European Central Banks' Executive Board
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019
This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...
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Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …
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Managers as Knowledge Carriers - Explaining Firms' Internationalization Success with Manager Mobility
Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018
How does “what managers know” affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the...
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