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A Theory of Expert Leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends …-business industry; and (3) leadership capabilities, which include management skills and a leader's innate characteristics. This paper …
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Leader Identity and Coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910757
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Endogenous Leadership : Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K. - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104933
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Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems : Evidence from New Japanese Data
Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2021
in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more … coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices … complementarity involving task coordination modes, HRMPs, training and hiring, and management strategies, and illustrates how such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316773
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
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The US Labor Market in 2030 : A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Edwards, Rebecca - 2013
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071294
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2015
Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a quantitative model to explain how changes in trade, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer...
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132524
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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
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 and industry experience. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103487