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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012

core business perform better than others. Our study collects and analyses 60 years of data from one of the world's most … and mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable …

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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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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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 …

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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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Sex differences in managerial style : from individual leadership to organisational labour relationships

Melero, Eduardo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from the British 1998 Workplace Employment Relationship Survey (WERS 98 … female managers into specific responsibilities, are avoided in the research presented here. The results show that workplaces … interactive relationships between managers and subordinates, and with more employee-mentoring responsibilities undertaken by …

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A theory of expert leadership

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 conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: the CC strategy

Kosfeld, Michael - 2019

I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly, leaders need to trust to not demotivate the...

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Leader identity and coordination

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer; … - 2018

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...

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