the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to determine the extent to which the role of leadership style preferences correlate with employee satisfaction with supervision among employees and leaders of an iranian oil company. this study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. the styles studied ...

The recent discovery of zero-determinant strategies for the iterated prisoner's dilemma sparked a surge of interest in the surprising fact that a player can exert unilateral control over iterated interactions. These remarkable strategies, however, are known to exist only in games in which players choose between two alternative actions such as "cooperate" and "defect." Here we introduce a broade...

Will the information technology revolution make autocratic regimes easier to overthrow? Probably not. I describe a game between one such regime and a large number of individuals. Individuals face a coordination problem: the more people act against the regime, the more likely it is to be overthrown and the greater the incentive for any individual to also act against it. Individual decisions are ...

We study a neuro-inspired model that mimics a discussion (or information dissemination) process in a network of agents. During their interaction, agents redistribute activity and network weights, resulting in emergence of leader(s). The model is able to reproduce the basic scenarios of leadership known in nature and society: laissez-faire (irregular activity, weak leadership, sizable inter-foll...

Leader turnover leads to the initiation of anti-dumping (AD) investigations among WTO member-states with AD codes on their books. This effect is larger in autocratic states. New autocratic leaders, under pressure from their supporters, may use their AD code to provide quick, WTO-legal trade barriers to protect those import-competing industries or firms that are members of their (usually narrow)...