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Stock repurchases and incentive compensation
Jolls, Christine - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004359318
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479801
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The Effect of Managers on Systematic Risk
Schoar, Antoinette - 2020
Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in explaining heterogeneity in firm exposures to systematic risk. These differences in systematic risk are partially explained by managers' corporate strategies, such as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481342
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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2010
A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465259
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452978
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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How do CEOs see their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2013
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the … hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to stakeholders such as employees and banks than they do to shareholders. They … arrangements in how intensively family members are involved in management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459265
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461276
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
management styles (i.e., manager fixed effects in corporate policies). Finally, the method used in the paper has a number of …
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