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We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …
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leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and … mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …
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Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …
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leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …
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Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...
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We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …
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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
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. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
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less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …
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