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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges.
The Psychological Value of Leadership Development: Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Organizations spend billions of dollars in leadership development, yet, our understanding of what is gained as a result of leadership development remain limited.
An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres.
Crafting Public Narrative to Enable Collective Action: A Pedagogy for Leadership Development
We propose a new theory of public narrative, its practice, and its pedagogy that can prepare leaders to mobilize collective action towards tackling grand challenges and responds to the call for humani
All Minds on Deck? Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations
Networked governance requires public managers to think and act strategically across organizational boundaries.
What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed?
Leadership development is a massive industry. But do these programs actually pay off for the leaders who participate in them?
How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gasoline Taxes?
Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation infrastructure, but these policies may place burdens on poorer households.
Leadership & overconfidence
Expressions of confidence can give leaders credibility. In the political realm, they can earn votes and public approval for decisions made in office.
Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
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