This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or … in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We …

and mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable …This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an "expert … leader" model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …

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 …

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … criticizes the rise of the professional manager and generalist CEO. It argues that expert leaders improve organizational …

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 with elected leaders coordinate on higher effort levels. Initially, the … benefits of being elected are enjoyed solely by male leaders. However, this gender difference disappears with repeated …

I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in …, leaders need to trust to not demotivate the motivated. Secondly, leaders need to punish to motivate the non-motivated. Finally …, leaders shall (and can) attract motivated types. The discussion is embedded in a more general attempt to promote and stimulate …