Leadership and group size: An experiment

Mana Komai and Philip Grossman

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, 20-22

Abstract: Our experimental results suggest that the effectiveness of leading by example decreases with group size. The discrepancy between the leaders' and followers' incentives increases with group size. Thus, as group size increases, followers more often refuse to follow their leaders.

Keywords: Leading; by; example; Free-riding; Cooperation; Group; size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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