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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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Do more educated leaders raise citizens' education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196470
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
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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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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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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
and mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539227
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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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