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Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability …

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Brain drain and LDCs' growth : winners and losers

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Preferences, financial literacy, and economic development

Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021

reciprocity. At the same time, the country's religious composition drives the association between altruism and financial knowledge …

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Female-led firms : performance and risk attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020

Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...

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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis

Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014

This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...

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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment

Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013

The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...

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The return of the prodigy son : do return migrants make better leaders?

Mercier, Marion - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. We put...

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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017

bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625327

Social connections and incentives in the workplace : evidence from personnel data

Bandiera, Oriana (contributor); Barankay, Iwan (contributor) - 2008

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …

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