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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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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence...
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Can leaders persuade? : examining movement in immigration beliefs
Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - 2022
Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...
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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 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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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2019 - This draft: September 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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Are women less effective leaders than men? : evidence from experiments using coordination games
Heursen, Lea; Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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Authoritarian leaders share conspiracy theories to attack opponents, promote in-group unity, shift blame, and undermine democratic institutions
Ren, Zhiying; Carton, Andrew M.; Dimant, Eugen; … - 2022
Although many virtuous leaders are guided by the ideal of prioritizing the need and welfare of their subordinates, others advance their self-interest at the expense of the people they purport to serve. In this article, we discuss the relationship between leadership and the spread of conspiracy...
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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
complexity and uncertainty. We exploit quasi-random assignment of employees to managers and study the role of frontline managers … administrative data and panel survey data from before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, we find that frontline managers who were …
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
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