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...

We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide verifiable policy-relevant information to a political decision-maker and to exert political pressure on her. We show that both lobbying instruments are interdependent. In our view information provision is a risky attempt to affect the...

The aim of the article is to relate the formation of influence networks to the coexistence of technologies in the long run. In the spirit of Plouraboue et al. (1998), we postulate that potential adopters of a technology are situated in a social network. In our model, initial relations are partly...

(a) Purpose. Triggered around year 2005, the current economic and financial crisis has gained a global character. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the crisis upon journalistic communication of financial and economic profile. b) The collection of basic information. As the...

<Para ID="Par1">An influence measure for investigating the influence of deleting an observation in linear regression is proposed based on geometric thoughts of the sampling distribution of the distance between two estimators of regression coefficients computed with and without a single specific observation. The...</para>

Examining board of directors’ decision making in case studies of CEOs and board members in four US companies, we found that an “inner board” of directors and CEOs linked by network ties outside of board meetings contained the most influential board members who also shared cognitions about...

Определен характер влияния репутационных рисков на состояние корпоративного имиджа промышленного предприятия. Кроме того, рассмотрены основные факторы...

Рассмотрен класс оптимизационных задач управления социальными сетями в условиях ограничений на значения мнений агентов, указаны известные методы их решения....

__Abstract __ The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers...

Former Head of the Singapore Civil Service Mr Lim Siong Guan now shares his diverse experiences and fresh insights on leadership in his exclusive new book, <i>The Leader, The Teacher & You</i>. As a former Permanent Secretary in ministries, including the Ministry of Defence, the Prime Minister's Office...