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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China
Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018
unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …, we find that the CEO's management scores are the most predictive of firm performance, followed by the senior managers and …
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The effectiveness of management training programs : a meta-analytic review
Busso, Matias; Park, Kyunglin; Irazoque, Nicolás - 2023
entrepreneurs and managers in specifically targeted sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, or services was more likely to …
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Charismatic leaders and nation building
Assouad, Lydia - 2020
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Religious & cultural leaders
Prummer, Anja - 2018
This paper surveys the existing literature on religious and cultural leaders. It discusses potential motivations of a leader and highlights that irrespective of his/her exact motivations, the presence of a leader is crucial for the cultural heterogeneity of a society. The impact of...
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Love the job... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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Is science able to perform under pressure? : insights from COVID-19
Chan, Ho Fai; Ferguson, Nikita; Savage, David; … - 2020
Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if science is organized knowledge and acts as a...
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Team performance and audience : experimental evidence from the football sector
Ferraresi, Massimiliano; Gucciardi, Gianluca - 2020
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How hybrid working from home works out
Bloom, Nicholas; Han, Ruobing; Liang, James - 2022
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Minimum wages, technological progress and loss of skill
Larsen, Birthe - 1998
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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