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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...

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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

Costa, Dora L. - 2011

The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...

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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation

Graham, John R. - 2011

We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...

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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment

Blinder, Alan S. - 2010

In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...

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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019

large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …

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How Do CEOS See Their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms

Mullins, William - 2014

Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the … control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more … also see their role as maintaining the status quo rather than bringing about change. In contrast, professional CEOs of non …

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The Effect of Managers on Systematic Risk

Schoar, Antoinette; Yeung, Kelvin; Zuo, Luo - 2022

Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in … managers’ corporate strategies, such as their preferences for internal growth and financial conservatism. Managers’ early …

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CEO Overconfidence and Innovation

Galasso, Alberto - 2014

Are CEOs' attitudes and beliefs linked to their fims' innovative performance? This paper uses Malmendier and Tate … CEOs innovate to provide evidence of their ability. The model predicts that overconfident CEOs, who underestimate the … effect is larger in more competitive industries. Our results suggest that overconfident CEOs are more likely to take their …

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Executive Lawyers : Gatekeepers or Strategic Officers?

Morse, Adair - 2016

are half as important as CEOs in explaining variances in compliance, monitoring, and business development. In a difference …

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How Do CEOS Make Strategy?

Yang, Mu-Jeung; Christensen, Michael; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022

structure, its formalization, its development, and its implementation. We report three key results. First, different CEOs use …

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