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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.

Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being (2023)
Journal Article
Zheng, X. (., Nieberle, K. W., Braun, S., & Schyns, B. (2023). Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(5), 818-837. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2699

Remote working has become the new norm in organizations. However, little is known about how supervisors’ monitoring affects their relationships with subordinates in remote work settings. Our research aims to enhance the understanding of the daily dyn... Read More about Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being.

What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures (2023)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Braun, S., & Xia, Y. E. (2023). What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures. Personality and Individual Differences, 206, Article 112107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112107

Narcissists are assumed to be highly motivated to lead, but little is known about the underlying reasons or boundary conditions of this motivation. We examine the mediating role of individual level of identity, arguing that this process differs betwe... Read More about What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures.

Me, me, me - narcissism and motivation to lead (2022)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Lagowska, U., & Braun, S. (2022). Me, me, me - narcissism and motivation to lead. Journal of Psychology, 230(4), 330-334. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000504

This study tests the relationships between grandiose narcissism and affective, calculative, social-normative motivation to lead (MTL), and avoidance to lead as well as between vulnerable narcissism and affective MTL and avoidance to lead. Further, we... Read More about Me, me, me - narcissism and motivation to lead.

Developing authenticity: A quasi-experimental investigation (2022)
Journal Article
Kipfelsberger, P., Braun, S., Fladerer, M. P., & Dragoni, L. (2022). Developing authenticity: A quasi-experimental investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 198, Article 111825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111825

Authenticity facilitates positive human functioning. Yet, previous research has not adequately addressed whether different dimensions of authenticity develop naturally as one ages or whether their development can be facilitated through systematic int... Read More about Developing authenticity: A quasi-experimental investigation.

Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities (2021)
Journal Article
Nieberle, K., Acton, B., Braun, S., & Lord, R. G. (2021). Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.13413abstract

Although leadership and followership processes are flexible and fluid, our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the short-term dynamics in individuals’ leadership and followership identities are limited. Building on a Dynamical Systems Perspective... Read More about Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities.

Sounds Like a Fit! Wording in Recruitment Advertisements and Recruiter Gender Affect Women’s Pursuit of Career Development Programs via Anticipated Belongingness (2020)
Journal Article
Hentschel, T., Braun, S., Peus, C., & Frey, D. (2021). Sounds Like a Fit! Wording in Recruitment Advertisements and Recruiter Gender Affect Women’s Pursuit of Career Development Programs via Anticipated Belongingness. Human Resource Management, 60(4), 581-602. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22043

Following calls for research to increase gender equality, we investigated women's intentions to pursue career opportunities, in the form of career development programs. We built on lack of fit and signaling theory to argue that women's but not men's... Read More about Sounds Like a Fit! Wording in Recruitment Advertisements and Recruiter Gender Affect Women’s Pursuit of Career Development Programs via Anticipated Belongingness.

Help When Dads Need Somebody? Follower Reactions to Leader Work-Family Conflict (2020)
Journal Article
Gloor, J., & Braun, S. (2020). Help When Dads Need Somebody? Follower Reactions to Leader Work-Family Conflict. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.27

Perceptions of others’ work-family conflict (WFC) have typically been studied as a top-down phenomenon grounded in gender role theory. This work has consistently revealed negative career consequences for followers whom leaders judge to have higher WF... Read More about Help When Dads Need Somebody? Follower Reactions to Leader Work-Family Conflict.

Managers’ resources for authentic leadership – A multi-study exploration of positive psychological capacities and ethical organizational climates (2020)
Journal Article
Fladerer, M., & Braun, S. (2020). Managers’ resources for authentic leadership – A multi-study exploration of positive psychological capacities and ethical organizational climates. British Journal of Management, 31(2), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12396

While authentic leadership is highly valued in today’s business world, managers do not necessarily have the resources to attain it. Building on conservation of resources theory, we propose a conceptual model to address how personal and contextual res... Read More about Managers’ resources for authentic leadership – A multi-study exploration of positive psychological capacities and ethical organizational climates.

Dark personalities in the workplace (2019)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Braun, S., & Wisse, B. (2019). Dark personalities in the workplace. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.553

Dark Triad personality traits in the workplace comprise of the traits narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. The Dark Triad and its relationships with individual and organisational variables has received increasing attention in organisational... Read More about Dark personalities in the workplace.

Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent (2019)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Schyns, B., Zheng, Y., & Lord, R. (2019). Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), Article 11224. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.160

Addressing the controversial debate about narcissism and its impact on organizations, this article pursues three main purposes: First, we aimed to assess the factorial structure of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) in an applied organizatio... Read More about Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent.

Connectionism in action: Exploring the links between leader prototypes, leader gender, and perceptions of authentic leadership (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Peus, C., & Frey, D. (2018). Connectionism in action: Exploring the links between leader prototypes, leader gender, and perceptions of authentic leadership. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 129-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.10.003

Building on the connectionist model of leadership perceptions, this research investigates the relationships between leader gender and authentic leadership perceptions from a leadership prototype perspective. In a five-study series, we tested differen... Read More about Connectionism in action: Exploring the links between leader prototypes, leader gender, and perceptions of authentic leadership.

Editorial: Fifty Shades of Grey: Exploring the Dark Sides of Leadership and Followership (2018)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Kark, R., & Wisse, B. (2018). Editorial: Fifty Shades of Grey: Exploring the Dark Sides of Leadership and Followership. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1877. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01877

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters. Okay. It’s like incredible!” Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, in January 2016 at a campaign rally in Iowa. In light of corporate and polit... Read More about Editorial: Fifty Shades of Grey: Exploring the Dark Sides of Leadership and Followership.

Authentic leadership and followers’ cheating behaviour: A laboratory experiment from a self-concept maintenance perspective (2017)
Book Chapter
Braun, S., & Hornuf, L. (2018). Authentic leadership and followers’ cheating behaviour: A laboratory experiment from a self-concept maintenance perspective. In D. Cotter-Lockard (Ed.), Authentic leadership and followership : international perspectives (215-244). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65307-5_9

This chapter presents insights into the question whether followers’ perceptions of authentic leadership attenuate cheating. From the perspective of self-concept maintenance theory, followers will cheat so long as they can maintain a positive self-con... Read More about Authentic leadership and followers’ cheating behaviour: A laboratory experiment from a self-concept maintenance perspective.

The communality-bonus effect for male transformational leaders – leadership style, gender, and promotability (2017)
Journal Article
Hentschel, T., Braun, S., Peus, C., & Frey, D. (2019). The communality-bonus effect for male transformational leaders – leadership style, gender, and promotability. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27(1), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432x.2017.1402759

Women have made considerable inroads into the workforce but remain underrepresented in leadership positions. Even though studies show that men and women hardly differ in their leadership behaviours, we argue that male and female leaders are evaluated... Read More about The communality-bonus effect for male transformational leaders – leadership style, gender, and promotability.

Führung und Kooperation in der modernen Arbeitswelt (2017)
Book Chapter
Braun, S., Haas, K., & Frey, D. (2017). Führung und Kooperation in der modernen Arbeitswelt. In J. Sautermeister (Ed.), Moralpsychologie : Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven (214-232). Kohlhammer

Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment (2017)
Journal Article
Braun, S., & Nieberle, K. (2017). Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment. The Leadership Quarterly, 28(6), 780-797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.04.003

Drawing on the work-home resources model, we develop a multilevel framework of individual and team perceptions of authentic leadership in relation to followers' work-family conflict (WFC) and enrichment (WFE). Our model suggests that authentic leader... Read More about Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment.

Warum wird sie nicht Führungskraft? Geschlecht und Karriereentwicklung (2017)
Book Chapter
Hentschel, P., Braun, S., & Peus, C. (2017). Warum wird sie nicht Führungskraft? Geschlecht und Karriereentwicklung. In S. Kauffeld, & D. Spurk (Eds.), Handbuch Karriere und Laufbahnmanagement (1-31). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45855-6_39-1

Frauen sind im Vergleich zu Männern gerade auf hohen Karrierestufen unterrepräsentiert. Die Frage nach dem Warum wird kontrovers diskutiert. Viele Unternehmen äußern eine Absicht, mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen zu befördern. Vor diesem Hintergrund... Read More about Warum wird sie nicht Führungskraft? Geschlecht und Karriereentwicklung.

Leader Narcissism and Outcomes in Organizations: A Review at Multiple Levels of Analysis and Implications for Future Research (2017)
Journal Article
Braun, S. (2017). Leader Narcissism and Outcomes in Organizations: A Review at Multiple Levels of Analysis and Implications for Future Research. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 773. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00773

Narcissists often pursue leadership and are selected for leadership positions by others. At the same time, they act in their own best interest, putting the needs and interests of others at risk. While theoretical arguments clearly link narcissism and... Read More about Leader Narcissism and Outcomes in Organizations: A Review at Multiple Levels of Analysis and Implications for Future Research.