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Showing 1 to 20 of 522 for “"Followers"”.
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Leaders, followers, and community detection
Communities in social interaction networks or graphs are sets of well-connected, and very often overlapping vertices. Formally, we view any maximal clique of the social network graph as a community. The problem of finding maximal cliques is known to be computationally hard. The goal of this work is …
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Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial leaders and followers
… as perceived by both leaders and their followers. By interviewing 12 individuals across three separate small business firms, a within case and cross case study analysis provided an opportunity for the opinions and perspectives of each leader to be compared with the opinions and …
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Lamas and Followers: Doing Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Chengdu
… ethnographic study examines how Chengdu-based followers and Tibetan lamas actively co-produce the space, authority, and affect of Tibetan Buddhism in urban life. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2023 across domestic, monastic, and communal settings, the thesis analyses three key dynamics: the …
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The Gendered Geography of War: Confederate Women As Camp Followers
… This thesis looks at Confederate female camp followers who appeared to defy societal conventions by entering the male dominated camps and blurred the lines between men and women’s proper spheres. While camp followers could be expanded to include women of the lower class, including black women, …
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Narcissism and Destructive Leadership: Meta-Analyses of Leaders and Followers
… was evidence of biases such as halo error, as followers who rate their leaders' narcissism and their leader's destructive leadership report a stronger relationship than other rating-source-based correlations. Moderator analyses revealed some evidence for cultural moderation of the …
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The Ottawa Senators Twitter Activity and the Effect on Their Followers
… of the National Hockey League, and their followers’. The first paper, using content analysis, analyzed the Senators’ tweets and resulting follower activity level. Focus group research aimed to uncover what specific Senators’ Twitter activity influenced their followers online, and their …
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The Influence of USAF Intelligence Squadron Commander Servant Leaders on Followers
… leadership to include creating a culture where followers feel like a community, creating strong trust between leaders and followers, and increased team cohesion. The aim of the study was to provide scholarly research for use in professional military education (PME) programs, and by senior …
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Female camp followers with regular army forces during the American Revolution
Female camp followers throughout history have followed troops into the field fulfilling supply and labor needs which the military structure could not. This pattern began to change during the American Revolution as governments and military commanders tightened their control on the military. Emerging …
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FOLLOWERS' REACTIONS TO FEMALE LEADERS: LEADER'S ORIENTATIONS, PROTOTYPICAL CATEGORIZATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Followers' perceptions of female leaders tend to be different from male leaders. For instance, the prototypes that correspond to female leaders tend to be more communal and transformational, whereas male leaders are associated with agentic and dominant leadership prototypes. Female leaders can be …
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Followers Who Lead: Modeling Leader Emergence Through Self-Monitoring and Social Identity Theories
<p>Past research has demonstrated direct and indirect links between the personality traits of dominance and self-monitoring and the resulting leader emergence. Research in the social psychology field has examined the emergent leader process from a different perspective, developing the leadership …
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Good Deeds Gone Wrong: How Leader Self-Sacrifice Morally Licenses Followers Counterproductive Work Behaviors
… This dissertation examines whether LSS can grant followers a vicarious moral license, potentially leading to increased counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Additionally, the moderating effects of leader group prototypicality (LGP) and organizational justice on the relationship between LSS, …
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Relationship between geo-cultural identity and leadership characteristic preferences of followers in a virtual environment
… and leadership characteristic preference of followers in a virtual environment. A review of earlier research identified five leadership characteristics that were tested in this study - communication, technical skills, trust / relationship building, vision, and collaboration. Information was …
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
Three groups are examined: the family, followers and friends. The structure,functions and tensions of these groups are described and their dynamics analysed in the fields of decision making and conflict resolution. The approach offers a dialectic between Latin and French sources, historical and …
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From Venice to Dresden: Tracing the Influence of Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerti among his Northern Followers
… output of select Northern contemporaries and followers, including Georg Philip Telemann and Jan Dismas Zelenka. The initial biographical portion of this research focuses on Vivaldi’s places of employment and also introduces less-known composers and bassoonists who further enriched Baroque …
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Servant Leadership and Mental Health Among Leaders and Followers: Empirical Investigations on Antecedents, Processes and Outcomes.
The incidence of sick leave caused by mental illness has been on the rise for years. This ongoing “epidemic” poses a major challenge to the econo-my. In occupational health psychology, leadership is having an important role in maintaining and promoting mental health. A very promising leadership …
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Encouraging leaders to be followers too : strengthening young women's leadership in a global, intergenerational, women's organisation
… realise a practice of emancipatory and critical followership that can influence who is recognised as a leader in their groups. Rather than considering youth as a time of preparation for a future practice of leadership, this thesis argues there is a need to recognise young people, and particularly …
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Collective Decision Making in Tibetan Macaques: How Followers Affect the Rules and Efficiency of Group Movement
… centrality on the number of fans (consistent followers) an individual had, and the number of group members an individual was a fan of (fandom). SEM revealed that dominant females had more fans, while younger, dominant individuals with more familial connections were fans of more individuals. …
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Exploring Outcomes of Leader's Self-Perceived Group Prototypicality and Followers' Perceived Leader Group Prototypicality
… 2001)- this study addresses how leaders’ and followers’ perceptions of leaders’ group prototypicality jointly influence creativity and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Drawing from the social identity theory of leadership, I proposed and tested a model of leaders’ and followers’ …
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