Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in
management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas …

Change management interventions (CMIs) are intentional activities that managers employ to
facilitate planned organizational change by influencing employee receptivity to and adoption …

This chapter reviews recent developments in the extensive and growing experimental
literature on coordination games. Coordination is necessary whenever there exist multiple …

Leadership theories in sociology and psychology argue that effective leaders influence
follower behavior not only through the design of incentives and institutions, but also through …

Experiments have long played a crucial role in various scientific disciplines and have been
gaining ground in organization theory, where they add unique value by establishing …

Charismatic leadership improves organizational performance. Charisma itself can be
defined as a repertoire of behaviors designed to communicate, however its constituents …

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection
issues present in natural environments, we use an experiment in which we create simple …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team
performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple …

This chapter has two distinct parts. In Sections 2, 3, and 4 we discuss a number of technical
dimensions pertaining to the implementation of communication in laboratory experiments. 1 …

We address gender differences in leader effectiveness and followers' perceptions of leaders'
effectiveness. Our experimental design removes gender-linked factors that might affect …