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http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-economics-and-leadership

Zehnder, Herz and Bonardi (2016) have convincingly argued in The Leadership Quarterly that economists and psychologists have much to learn from each other, particularly on the topic of leadership. On one hand, research in applied psychology and management research is starting to use insights from economics with respect to game theoretic designs (e.g., Bendahan, Zehnder, Pralong, & Antonakis, 2015; Sivanathan, Pillutla, & Murnighan, 2008), as well as strongly incentivized alternative treatments (Peterson & Luthans, 2006), or incorporating contextual and macroeconomic factors (Jacquart & Antonakis, 2015) to studying leadership and the effect of leader behaviors on outcomes. Methods typically used in econometrics are also making inroads in leadership research to address fundamental issues pertaining to the problem of endogeneity or reverse causality (see for example Cavazotte, Moreno & Hickman, 2012; Steffens, Peters, Haslam, & van Dick, 2016; Hu, Wang, Liden & Sun, 2012; also Antonakis, Bendahan, Jacquart, & Lalive, 2010).

On the other hand, economists now acknowledge that leadership matters. Hermalin (1998), for instance, provides an economic model of leadership where leaders use their access to private information as a means to persuade followers. Brunnermeier et al. (2011) propose a theory that models how the leader�s personal attributes affect the ability to develop a successful mission for the organization and to build high-performance teams. Kosfeld and Rustagi (2015) demonstrate that leader�s propensities to act anti-socially can impact the behaviors in groups they lead. This interest in the effectiveness of leadership is no longer restricted to the contractual relationship between leader and follower as in the principal-agent model in economics (Holmstr�m & Milgrom, 1991; Lazear 2000), or other formal aspects such as the assignment of decision rights (Aghion & Tirole, 1994; Fehr, Herz & Wilkening, 2013) or delegation of decisions (Hamman, Loewenstein, and Weber, 2010; Bartling and Fischbacher, 2012); it also concerns how leaders are attributed responsibility of outcomes (Weber, Camerer, Rottenstreich & Knez, 2002), and how leaders can, using charisma, motivate subordinates to exert more effort (Hermalin, �2014). In addition, this interest is found not only at the micro- or individual level, but also at the organizational (see notably Lazear, Shaw & Stanton, 2015) and even macro-levels (Jones & Olken, 2005). Additionally, although economists have shown that across and within firms, sectors, and countries the role of management quality is crucial for economic performance (Bloom, Lemos, Sadun, Scur, & Van Reenen, 2014), a neglected element in explaining drivers of outcomes is individual leadership styles. ��

Against this background of a clearly discernible increase of the relevance of leadership in economic research as well as economic factors in traditional leadership models�which goes along with a call from the leadership literature to consider economic factors more seriously�this special issue will bring together research at the cross-roads of economics and leadership. Topics that we will consider include, but are not limited to:

1. How should we isolate and quantify, using economic indicators, the impact of leadership on organizational outcomes?

2. How can creative use of nonexperimental methods typically used in economics (e.g., difference-in-differences models, propensity score models, regression discontinuity designs, etc.), be applied in leadership studies to show, causally, that leadership matters?

3. How does the relationship between leadership and economic performance vary across sectors and countries, and over time? That is to say, what makes this relationship context-dependent?

4. How can the methods of experimental economics be used to better understand the channels through which leadership interventions affect follower behavior?

5. How can leadership theories be tested in more robust ways by using strongly incentivized conditions and examining actual outcomes that are consequential (i.e., beyond attitudinal and hypothetical measures often used in psychology)?

6. Can insights from the crossroads of leadership and economics also be used for policy making and/or in the political arena, and if so how?

7. How do different leadership styles interact with economic incentives in driving follower motivation and how do these interactions change over time?

8. What aspects of leadership as a phenomenon can be translated into formal (theoretical) models?

Submission Process

Authors should submit their manuscripts from September 1st, 2017 but no later than the submission deadline of December 1st, 2017, online via The Leadership Quarterly�s EVISE submission system at https://www.evise.com/profile/#/LEAQUA/login. ���To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select �SI: Economics� when they reach the �Article Type� step in the submission process. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with The Leadership Quarterly�s Guide for Authors available on the journal web page. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to The Leadership Quarterly�s double blind review process.

References

Aghion, P., & Tirole, J. (1997). Formal and Real Authority in Organizations. Journal of Political Economy, 105(1), 1-29.

Antonakis, J., Bendahan, S., Jacquart, P., & Lalive, R. (2010). On making causal claims: A review and recommendations.�The Leadership Quarterly, 21, 1086-1120.

Bartling, B., & Fischbacher, U. (2012). Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility. The Review of Economic Studies, 79(1), 67-87.

Bendahan, S., Zehnder, C., Pralong, F. P., & Antonakis, J. (2015). Leader corruption depends on power and testosterone. The Leadership Quarterly, 26, 101-122.

Bloom, N., Lemos, R., Sadun, R. , Scur, D. & Van Reenen, J. (2014). The new empirical economics of management. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12, 835�876.

Brunnermeier, M. K., Bolton, P., and Veldkamp, L. (2013). Leadership, Coordination and Corporate Culture. Review of Economic Studies 80, 512-537.

Cavazotte, F., Moreno, V., & Hickmann, M. (2012). Effects of leader intelligence, personality and emotional intelligence on transformational leadership and managerial performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(3), 443-455.

Fehr, E., Herz, H., & Wilkening, T. (2013). The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power.�American Economic Review,�103 (4), 1325-1359.

Hamman, J.R., Loewenstein, G., & Weber, R.A. (2010). Self-interest through delegation: An additional rationale for the principal-agent relationship. American Economic Review,�100 (4), 1826-1846.

Hermalin, B.E. (1998). Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example. American Economic Review, 88 (5), 1188-1206.

Hermalin, B.E. (2014). At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership, working paper. See http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hermalin/kirk_spock_v31.pdf

Holmstr�m, B., & Milgrom, P. (1991). Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 7, 24-52.

Hu, J., Wang, Z., Liden, R. C., & Sun, J. 2012. The influence of leader core self-evaluation on follower reports of transformational leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(5): 860-868.

Jacquart, P. & Antonakis, J. (2015). When does charisma matter for top-level leaders? Effect of attributional ambiguity. Academy of Management Journal, 58, 1051-1074.

Kosfeld, M., & Rustagi, D. (2015). Leader Punishment and Cooperation in Groups: Experimental Field Evidence from Commons Management in Ethiopia. American Economic Review, 105 (2), 747-83.

Jones, B. F. & Olken, B. A. (2005). Do leaders matter? National leadership and growth since World War II. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (3), 835-864. 835-864.

Lazear, E. (2000). The Power of Incentives. The American Economic Review, 90(2), 410-414.

Lazear, E.P., Shaw, K.L., & and Stanton, C. (2015). The Value of Bosses. Journal of Labor Economics, 33 (4), 823�861.

Peterson, S. J. & Luthans, F. (2006). The Impact of Financial and Nonfinancial Incentives on Business-Unit Outcomes Over Time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91 (1), 156-165.

Sivanathan, N., Pillutla, M. M., & Murnighan, J. K. (2008). Power gained, power lost. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 135-146.

Steffens, N. K., Peters, K., Haslam, S. A., & van Dick, R. (2016). Dying for charisma: Leaders' inspirational appeal increases post-mortem. The Leadership Quarterly.������� http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.09.001

Weber, R., Camerer, C., Rottenstreich, Y., & Knez, M. (2002). The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games. Organization Science, 12(5), 582-598.

Zehnder, C., Herz, H., & Bonardi, J. P. (2016). A productive clash of cultures: Injecting economics into leadership research.�The Leadership Quarterly, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.10.004

Special Issue Co-editors:

• Harry Garretsen & Janka Stoker, University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, The Netherlands

• Roberto Weber, University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Switzerland

Thank you.
John Antonakis

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