Leaders as role models and ‘belief managers’ in social dilemmas
By Simon Gächter, E. Renner. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018
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We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior in social dilemmas. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others’ behavior. Our framework is a repeated experimental public goods game with and without a leader who makes a contribution to the public good before others (the followers). We find that leaders strongly shape their followers’ initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds, followers put more weight on other followers’ past behavior than on the leader's current action. This creates a path dependency the leader can hardly correct. We discuss the implications for understanding belief effects in naturally occurring situations.
Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Safety Research
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- When and how health‐oriented leadership relates to employee well‐being—The role of expectations, self‐care, and LMX (2021, background): “Furthermore, based on social cognitive learning theories (e.g., Bandura, 1977), leaders serve as role models through their own behavior (Gächter & Renner, 2018).”