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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Influence in Economics and Aging

Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2020

We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...

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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...

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Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …

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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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How Common Are Bad Bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …

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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

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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Why do leaders matter? The role of expert knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008

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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