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Effect of time pressure on informal advice relations across organizational units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, A., Lomi, A., & Zappa, P. (2024). Effect of time pressure on informal advice relations across organizational units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team. Organization Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241261448

Informal advice relations across units in an organization are beneficial for knowledge sharing and problem-solving. Prior research suggests that despite their benefits, there are costs to informal advice relations across units. However, the mechanism... Read More about Effect of time pressure on informal advice relations across organizational units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team.

Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy (2024)
Journal Article
Epitropaki, O., & Avramidis, P. (2024). Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy. The Leadership Quarterly, Article 101786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786

Whereas the scarring effects of unemployment on future income, health and well-being are well-documented, little is known about its potential role in future leadership emergence and development. Using data from two cohorts of the National Longitudina... Read More about Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy.

Global Flow of Foreign Aid and Change in Recipients’ Local Labor Institutions (2024)
Journal Article
Niu, S., Gao, X., Gu, Z., Zhang, Y., & Wei, Q. (2024). Global Flow of Foreign Aid and Change in Recipients’ Local Labor Institutions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2024, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/1147752

How does foreign aid affect recipient countries’ labor institutions? Extant empirical evidence is sparse due to ambiguous theoretical predictions and potential endogeneity issues. This study uses data detailing aid flow and institutional functions to... Read More about Global Flow of Foreign Aid and Change in Recipients’ Local Labor Institutions.

Social Networks in the Work-Nonwork Borderland: Developing an Integrative Model of Cross-Domain Multiplex Relationships (2024)
Journal Article
Methot, J., Parker, A., & Hubbard, A. (2024). Social Networks in the Work-Nonwork Borderland: Developing an Integrative Model of Cross-Domain Multiplex Relationships. Group and Organization Management, 49(2), 259-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011241232183

Individuals’ networks are multiplex—bundles of roles, interactions, and exchanges—in which the boundaries between work relationships and non-work relationships are often blurred, or integrated. Surprisingly, though, there is a paucity of research tha... Read More about Social Networks in the Work-Nonwork Borderland: Developing an Integrative Model of Cross-Domain Multiplex Relationships.

It’s more about ‘we’ than ‘I’: The employee-supervisor fit in achievement striving, organizational identification and employee voice (2024)
Journal Article
Zheng, J. X., Williams, M., (Christina) Wang, X., & Liang, J. (in press). It’s more about ‘we’ than ‘I’: The employee-supervisor fit in achievement striving, organizational identification and employee voice. Management and Organization Review,

By integrating the theory of purposeful work behavior with the person-environment (P-E) fit literature, we employ a bilateral approach to examine how employee-supervisor congruence in purposeful work striving (i.e., achievement striving) influences e... Read More about It’s more about ‘we’ than ‘I’: The employee-supervisor fit in achievement striving, organizational identification and employee voice.

An examination of shared leadership configurations and their effectiveness in teams (2024)
Journal Article
Chamberlin, M., Nahrgang, J. D., Sessions, H., & De Jong, B. (2024). An examination of shared leadership configurations and their effectiveness in teams. Journal of Organizational Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2774

A key challenge in the shared leadership literature has been a limited understanding of how multiple leadership activities are shared across team members and roles. We address this issue by conceptualizing and operationalizing shared leadership using... Read More about An examination of shared leadership configurations and their effectiveness in teams.

Triggered abuse: How and why leaders with narcissistic rivalry react to follower deviance (2024)
Journal Article
Gauglitz, I. K., & Schyns, B. (2024). Triggered abuse: How and why leaders with narcissistic rivalry react to follower deviance. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05579-7

Previous research has shown that leaders’ narcissistic rivalry is positively associated with abusive supervision. However, it remains unclear when and how leaders high in narcissistic rivalry show abusive supervision. Building on trait activation the... Read More about Triggered abuse: How and why leaders with narcissistic rivalry react to follower deviance.

The SAGE Handbook of Leadership (2023)
Book
Schedlitzki, D., Larsson, M., Carroll, B., Bligh, M. C., & Epitropaki, O. (2023). The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications

Managing in the collective: The practice of Big Science collaborations (2023)
Book Chapter
Robinson, M., & Braun, S. (2023). Managing in the collective: The practice of Big Science collaborations. In T. Das (Ed.), Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and Organization (1-38). Information Age Publishing

The scientific results of Big Science increasingly hit the headlines as they provide welcome hope to address a range of complex cross-border problems. However, their collaborative style governance and managerial practice have gone relatively unseen.... Read More about Managing in the collective: The practice of Big Science collaborations.

Sexualize one, objectify all? The sexualization spillover effect on female job candidates (2023)
Journal Article
Guillén, L., Kakarika, M., & Heflick, N. (2023). Sexualize one, objectify all? The sexualization spillover effect on female job candidates. Journal of Organizational Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2758

Summary: We examined whether sexualizing a businesswoman impacts attitudes toward subsequently evaluated, nonsexualized females applying for a corporate managerial position. Research shows that sexualized women are perceived as less warm and competen... Read More about Sexualize one, objectify all? The sexualization spillover effect on female job candidates.

When does charm turn sour in early career working relationships? The relationship between narcissism and Leader-Member and Member-Member Exchange (2023)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Gauglitz, I. K., Veestraeten, M., Nestler, S., & Bonnefous, A. (2023). When does charm turn sour in early career working relationships? The relationship between narcissism and Leader-Member and Member-Member Exchange. Cadernos EBAPE.BR, 21(6), Article e2023-0058. https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-395120230058x

Internships offer the opportunity for students in higher education to have their first work experience and start building professional relationships. However, the ways in which these experiences and relationships unfold may differ significantly. In t... Read More about When does charm turn sour in early career working relationships? The relationship between narcissism and Leader-Member and Member-Member Exchange.

The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship (2023)
Journal Article
Muñoz-Roman, P., Braun, S., Chowdhury, F., Barton, M., Jayne-Little, N., Komes, J., …Taggart, A. (2023). The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20, Article e00430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00430

This paper explores the deterioration of self-worth in entrepreneurship. Using a 15-month participatory action research in the North of England, we found mismatches between expectations and experiences at three interacting levels—purpose, autonomy,... Read More about The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship.

Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events (2023)
Journal Article
Nieberle, K. W., Acton, B. P., Braun, S., Lord, R. G., & Fu, Y. A. (2024). Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39(3), 755-778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09906-7

Recent theorizing challenges the notion that leadership, and especially leader identities, is static. Yet, we know little about the dynamics that characterize how leader identities change within individuals across short periods of time. The current w... Read More about Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events.

Vulnerable narcissistic leadership meets Covid-19: The relationship between vulnerable narcissistic leader behaviour and subsequent follower irritation (2023)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Gauglitz, I. K., Gilmore, S., & Nieberle, K. (2023). Vulnerable narcissistic leadership meets Covid-19: The relationship between vulnerable narcissistic leader behaviour and subsequent follower irritation. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2252130

Leaders’ vulnerable narcissism may cause followers irritation due to its antagonistic and neurotic nature. Based on conservation of resources theory, we propose and test a model of between-person and reciprocal within-person relations between weekly... Read More about Vulnerable narcissistic leadership meets Covid-19: The relationship between vulnerable narcissistic leader behaviour and subsequent follower irritation.

Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles (2023)
Journal Article
Page, A., Sealy, R., Parker, A., & Hauser, O. (2023). Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles. The Leadership Quarterly, Article 101721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101721

We use an event study design to provide evidence demonstrating how the trickle-down effect is influenced by the introduction of regulation on board gender diversity. In 2011, a new regulation was suddenly introduced for firms listed on the United Kin... Read More about Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles.

Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction. (2023)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Jiang, D., Wu, C., Deng, H., Su, S., Buchtel, E. E., & Chen, S. X. (2023). Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction. American Psychologist, https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001188

It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we dra... Read More about Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction..

Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip (2023)
Journal Article
Kakarika, M., Taghavi, S., & González-Gómez, H. (2024). Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip. Journal of Business Ethics, 189(2), 329-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05355-7

We conducted three studies to examine how the recipients of negative workplace gossip judge the gossip sender’s morality and how they respond behaviorally. Study 1 provided experimental evidence that gossip recipients perceive senders as low in moral... Read More about Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip.

More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving (2023)
Journal Article
Decreton, B., Tippmann, E., Nell, P. C., & Parker, A. (2023). More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving. Strategic Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3495

Research Summary Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation. When these problems occur in subsidiarie... Read More about More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving.