Endogenous Leadership in Teams

Pedro Rey-Biel and Steffen Huck

Microeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In this paper we study the mechanics of ``leading by example'' in teams. Leadership is beneficial for the entire team when agents are conformists, i.e., dislike effort differentials. We also show how leadership can arise endogenously and discuss what type of leader benefits a team most.

Keywords: team production; conformism; leadership; leading by example; endogenous timing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D23 D63 J31 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2005-06-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cbe, nep-gth and nep-lab
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