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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 … findings, we contribute new insights to the leadership literature and derive practical implications …
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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment
Grosch, Kerstin - 2020
, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that … leadership, as they align dishonest behavior with their belief on group members’ honesty preferences …
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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...
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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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The Demand for Executive Skills
Hansen, Stephen; Sadun, Raffaella; Ramdas, Tejas; … - 2021
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...
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The Market for CEOs
Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021
We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs’ prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222199
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The Effects of Graduating from High School in a Recession : College Investments, Skill Formation, and Labor-Market Outcomes
Hampf, Franziska - 2020
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Anderberg, Dan - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
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