Incentives, leadership and work organization (B05)

• Subject Area: Economic Theory ; Economic Policy, Applied Economics
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 280092119

The project focuses on different forms of leadership in organizations. Its previous work differentiates between transactional and transformational leadership and finds that transformational leaders, who lead others without enforcing rules or providing monetary incentives, are more effective than transactional leaders. In the third funding period, the team will study the interaction of leadership style with organizational conditions, including (i) leader legitimacy and corporate misconduct, (ii) managerial behaviors, worker empowerment, and other content of internal communications, and (iii) knowledge flows within organizations.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 190: Rationality and Competition: The Economic Performance of Individuals and Firms
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Anastasia Danilov, until 12/2024; Professor Dr. Florian Englmaier; Professorin Rajshri Jayaraman, Ph.D., until 12/2020; Professorin Dr. Anja Schöttner