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Female-Led Firms : Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 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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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
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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....
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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
and mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable …
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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...
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Female Workers, Male Managers : Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
Rinne, Ulf - 2019
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto - 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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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
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What If Your Boss is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace
Lucifora, Claudio - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces : Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, Stanley - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
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