All Outputs (50)

Managing in the collective: The practice of Big Science collaborations (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship (2023)
Journal Article

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

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.

Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment (2017)
Journal Article

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

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.