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Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations (2025)
Journal Article
Stollberger, J., Anand, S., & Dick, P. (online). Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267251332075

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of scientific knowledge production since the latest iterations of generative AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, or Gemini) became widely available. Given AI has rapidly evolved since th... Read More about Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations.

Women’s and Men’s Authorship Experiences: A Prospective Meta-Analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Banks, G. C., Rasmussen, L. M., Tonidandel, S., Pollack, J. M., Hausfeld, M. M., Williams, C., Albritton, B. H., Allen, J. A., Bastardoz, N., Batchelor, J. H., Bennett, A. A., Briker, R., Castille, C. M., De Jong, B. A., Demeter, E., DeSimone, J. A., Field, J. G., Figueroa-Armijos, M., Fernanda Garcia, M., Gardner, W. L., …Yang, T. (2025). Women’s and Men’s Authorship Experiences: A Prospective Meta-Analysis. Journal of Management, 51(4), 1273-1287. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251315701

The opaqueness of author naming and ordering, when coupled with power dynamics, can lead to a number of disadvantages in academic careers. In this commentary, we investigate gender differences in authorship experiences in a large prospective meta-ana... Read More about Women’s and Men’s Authorship Experiences: A Prospective Meta-Analysis.

Pursuing a future leader self: A multi‐study investigation of leader identity and its motivational and behavioural outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Morgan, R., Braun, S., & Epitropaki, O. (2025). Pursuing a future leader self: A multi‐study investigation of leader identity and its motivational and behavioural outcomes. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(1), Article e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70014

Developing as a leader is widely recognized as a challenging endeavour that takes time. However, little research has been done to explain the process through which future representations of oneself as a leader relate to current leader identity and ho... Read More about Pursuing a future leader self: A multi‐study investigation of leader identity and its motivational and behavioural outcomes.

Felt trust: Added baggage or added value? A critical review, constructive redirection, and exploratory meta‐analysis (2024)
Journal Article
de Jong, B., Lee, A., Gill, J., & Zheng, J. (online). Felt trust: Added baggage or added value? A critical review, constructive redirection, and exploratory meta‐analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2838

Summary: After decades of scholarly focus on studying trust from the trustor's perspective, there has been a rapidly growing interest in understanding trust from the trustee's perspective, with a particular focus on felt trust (i.e., a trustee's perc... Read More about Felt trust: Added baggage or added value? A critical review, constructive redirection, and exploratory meta‐analysis.

Sparking or smothering darkness: Motivational climates influence the leader grandiose narcissism–follower trust relation via leader self‐serving behaviour (2024)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Sleebos, E., Zou, L. L., & Wisse, B. M. (online). Sparking or smothering darkness: Motivational climates influence the leader grandiose narcissism–follower trust relation via leader self‐serving behaviour. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12555

Research suggests that the effects of leader narcissism can be complex and context dependent, causing a lack of clarity about the conditions under which leader narcissism affects follower perceptions. We posit that the organizational climate plays an... Read More about Sparking or smothering darkness: Motivational climates influence the leader grandiose narcissism–follower trust relation via leader self‐serving behaviour.

How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership. (2024)
Journal Article
Masters-Waage, T. C., Bastardoz, N., Narayanan, J., & Epitropaki, O. (online). How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership. American Psychologist, https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001413

Individuals hold internal leadership representations, termed leadership prototypes. We examined how these prototypes changed in reaction to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. A sample of Republicans ( = 200), Democrats ( = 200), and individuals w... Read More about How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership..

Grandiose and vulnerable leader narcissism in context: the role of events (2024)
Book Chapter
Topakas, A., Gan, X., & Braun, S. (2024). Grandiose and vulnerable leader narcissism in context: the role of events. In B. Schyns, P. Neves, & K. Breevaart (Eds.), Research Handbook on Destructive Leadership (132-154). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035315925.00013

Narcissism is indicative of an exaggerated self-focus characterized by positive self-views, such as superiority and importance. This chapter draws on trait activation theory, situation strength and event system theory, as well as the distinction betw... Read More about Grandiose and vulnerable leader narcissism in context: the role of events.

When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision (2024)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Schyns, B., Zheng, Y., & Lord, R. G. (online). When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05805-w

Research to date provides only limited insights into the processes of abusive supervision, a form of unethical leadership. Leaders' vulnerable narcissism is important to consider, as, according to the trifurcated model of narcissism, it combines enti... Read More about When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision.

‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts (2024)
Journal Article
Marstand, A. F., Epitropaki, O., & Kapoutsis, I. (online). ‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12544

Drawing on construal level and conservation of resources theories, our paper focuses on the psychological distance employees experience from their manager in remote work contexts. We specifically examine the role of three leadership behaviours (initi... Read More about ‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts.

Lead today, follow tomorrow? How to manage the ebb and flow of leader and follower identities (2024)
Book Chapter
Nieberle, K. W., Acton, B. P., Fu, Y. (., Lord, R. G., & Braun, S. (2024). Lead today, follow tomorrow? How to manage the ebb and flow of leader and follower identities. In S. Braun, T. Keller Hansbrough, G. A. Ruark, R. G. Lord, R. J. Hall, & O. Epitropaki (Eds.), Navigating leadership: Evidence-based strategies for leadership development (9–15). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377450

Leader and follower identities are fundamental drivers of leader and follower behaviors. This chapter shows why understanding the changing nature of leader and follower identities will help you on your personal development journey. In the beginning,... Read More about Lead today, follow tomorrow? How to manage the ebb and flow of leader and follower identities.

Behind the Mask: How to Tackle Challenges of Leadership Impostorism (2024)
Book Chapter
Holmes, T., Berghoff, N., & Kark, R. (2024). Behind the Mask: How to Tackle Challenges of Leadership Impostorism. In S. Braun, T. K. Hansbrough, G. A. Ruark, R. G. Lord, R. J. Hall, & O. Epitropaki (Eds.), Navigating Leadership: Evidence-Based Strategies for Leadership Development. Routledge

Are you struggling with the feeling that you do not meet the expectations others have of you as a leader? Do you sometimes worry that you will be exposed as a fraud in your managerial or leadership role? You may be experiencing leadership impostorism... Read More about Behind the Mask: How to Tackle Challenges of Leadership Impostorism.

It’s more about ‘we’ than ‘I’: The employee-supervisor fit in achievement striving, organizational identification and employee voice (2024)
Journal Article
Zheng, X. (., Williams, M., Wang, X. (., & Liang, J. (2024). It’s more about ‘we’ than ‘I’: The employee-supervisor fit in achievement striving, organizational identification and employee voice. Management and Organization Review, 20(3), 517-538. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2024.18

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.

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, 45(10), 1441-1465. 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.

When competitive rewards create obsessions with bottom‐line outcomes: A social interdependence theory perspective of the mediating role of bottom‐line mentality (2024)
Journal Article
Mawritz, M. B., Greenbaum, R. L., Deng, Y., Rosikiewicz, B. L., Farro, A. C., & Mitchell, M. (2024). When competitive rewards create obsessions with bottom‐line outcomes: A social interdependence theory perspective of the mediating role of bottom‐line mentality. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(8), 1231-1248. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2791

We rely on social interdependence theory to examine bottom-line mentality (BLM) as a motivational state that explains the effects of competitive rewards on oppositional actions in the forms of decreases in interpersonal organizational citizenship beh... Read More about When competitive rewards create obsessions with bottom‐line outcomes: A social interdependence theory perspective of the mediating role of bottom‐line mentality.

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, 35(4), 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.