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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Breakthroughs, backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence : an extended real options approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2022

Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty. This paper applies a real options model, extended to...

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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Extreme events, entrepreneurial start-ups, and innovation: theoretical conjectures

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …

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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018

Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...

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The radical innovation investment decision refined

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2013

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain … attractive for private entrepreneurs. -- radical innovation ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; investment ; R&D ; risk ; real …

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Boss competence and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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How common are bad bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Women have to enter the leadership race to win : using random selection to increase the supply of women into senior positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...

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Physician-leaders and hospital performance : is there an association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as...

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