Unlocking Foreclosed Beliefs: An Autoethnographic Story about a Family Business Leadership Dilemma

Leadership, Followership, and Beliefs About the World: An Experiment

One key function of political leadership is to facilitate coordinated action by “followers.” The need to fulfill this function can affect leaders’ strategic incentives to depict the political world in one way as opposed to another when choosing political communications. This paper describes a laboratory experiment that was conducted to explore the effects of a leader’s communications on followe...

Explaining family physicians’ beliefs about antibiotic prescription

Background Antibiotics are among those drugs prescribed abundantly in hospitals due to their high efficiency. However, excessive, non-logical and unnecessary use of antibiotics regardless of physicians' recommendations is considered as a challenge. Objectives The aim of this study was to explain family physicians' beliefs about antibiotic prescription in Ahvaz. Methods This study is part of...

Nurses' beliefs about family presence during resuscitation.

The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the beliefs and experiences of RNs about family presence (FP) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Ten RNs with a minimum of 4 years of clinical experience working in diverse acute care units provided data for the study. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. Four themes emerged: (a) the conditions under which ...

Leadership, Followership, and Beliefs About the World: Theory and Experiment∗

Behavioral literature in political science and psychology suggests that factual beliefs about the world often vary across different social groups, including by partisan affiliation. This paper explores potential microfoundations for this regularity by analyzing interactions between a group leader and her “followers.” A game-theoretic framework is developed, in which a leader with private inform...

The leadership dilemma.