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A productive clash of cultures : injecting economics into leadership research
Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016
Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related … leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both …
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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
The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal …
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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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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment
Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...
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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...
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The past and future of work : how history can inform the age of automation
Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023
Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in history are rarely considered in depth or used to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014430719
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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024
We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...
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Intercity impacts of workfrom-home with both remote and non-remote workers
Brueckner, Jan K.; Sayantani, S. - 2022
This paper summarizes the results from generalizing the simple two-city WFH model of Brueck-ner, Kahn and Lin (2021) through the addition of a group of non-remote workers, who must live in the city where they work. The results show that the main qualitative conclusions of BKL regarding the...
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Will the remote work revolution undermine progressive state income taxes?
Agrawal, David R.; Stark, Kirk J. - 2022
The remote work revolution raises the possibility that a larger segment of the population will be able to sever the geographic linkage between home and work. What are the taxing rights of states as to nonresident remote workers? May a state impose income taxes on nonresident employees only to...
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The city paradox : skilled services and remote work
Althoff, Lukas; Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; … - 2020
The large cities in the US are the most expensive places to live. Paradoxically, this cost is disproportionately paid by workers who could work remotely, and live anywhere. The greater potential for remote work in large cities is mostly accounted for by their specialization in skill- and...
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