Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2022-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101590
{"title":"Effect of crises on charisma signaling: A regression discontinuity design","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101590","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101590","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars have investigated the emergence of charismatic leaders in times of crisis. However, results from this research are usually descriptive, suffer from endogeneity<span> bias, or rely on inappropriate causal modeling<span><span>. Building on exogenous events, we explore the causal effect of crises on charismatic rhetoric and approval ratings of political leaders using regression discontinuity designs. In a reanalysis of Bligh et al. (2004), we find that the rhetoric of President George W. Bush changed after 9/11 to include more references to charismatic themes. We replicate these results using President Francois Hollande reactions to terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016 (i.e., Charlie Hebdo, </span>Paris, and Nice attacks). Across both studies, we find similar evidence for an upward shift in charismatic rhetoric and approval ratings at the time of crisis. Our findings contribute to the literature on charisma and crisis by showing that the emergence of charisma is not only a follower attributional process but that veritable behavior of leaders can change. Our manuscript also pedagogically re-introduces the regression discontinuity design, a quasi-experimental procedure largely unused in applied leadership and management research.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101590"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77586245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101823
Philippe Jacquart, Simone Santoni, Simeon Schudy, Jost Sieweke, Michael Withers
{"title":"Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues","authors":"Philippe Jacquart, Simone Santoni, Simeon Schudy, Jost Sieweke, Michael Withers","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article systematically explores exogenous shocks in leadership and management research. It introduces a special issue of The Leadership Quarterly emphasizing how naturally occurring events like financial crises, pandemics, and regulatory changes can be used for empirical research. Then, it reviews various conceptualizations and ways of integrating exogenous shocks into empirical strategies. Finally, it categorizes exogenous shocks based on their extent, timescale, and granularity of intervention, highlighting challenges in causal identification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101823"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000523/pdfft?md5=8d1fa3add5f225dfd5ae34f59efc3598&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000523-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2021-06-11DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101542
{"title":"Democratic governors quicker to issue stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Does U.S. governors’ political partisanship matter to their responses to the COVID-19 public health crisis? Drawing from upper echelons theory, we examined whether and when the governors’ political partisanship (Democratic versus Republican) mattered to the time they took to issue stay-at-home orders, which were advocated to be a strong defense to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings based on event history methodology reveal that Democratic governors took about 9 fewer days than Republican governors to issue statewide stay-at-home orders. In addition, governing discretion and governing demands exacerbated the relationship of governors’ political partisanship with the time to their issuance of stay-at-home orders. For instance, when governing discretion was high, Democratic governors took 18 fewer days than Republican governors to issue stay-at-home orders. Moreover, when governing demands were high, Democratic governors took 25 fewer days than Republican governors to declare stay-at-home orders. Our findings are robust to different sets of analyses and a comprehensive set of controls. Moreover, additional analyses suggest that governors' political partisanship was also related to the issuance of reopening plans and that governing discretion and governing demands moderated the relationship. This research provides theoretical and actionable practical implications for various stakeholders in the fight against COVID-19.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101542"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984321000473/pdfft?md5=29293750058f3aef7500dac9d7f6dea9&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984321000473-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87382633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101796
Renjie Zhao , Shihu Zhong , Jie Chen
{"title":"Early-life experience and political leaders’ policy preference: Evidence from China’s Zhiqing officials","authors":"Renjie Zhao , Shihu Zhong , Jie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101796","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101796","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>By exploiting both the unique institutional setting of the Chinese political system and the quasi-experimental features of a massive nationwide rural rustication movement in China during the 1960–1970s, this paper explores the relationship between leaders’ early-life experiences and their policy preferences. Based on a unique panel data set of 318 regional units from 2003 to 2012, we find that those units are associated with more generous rural welfare programs when governed by <em>zhiqing</em> leaders, who experienced rural rustication during their early adulthood. We further find that this association becomes stronger when leaders spent more time in rustication or rusticated in places that were much worse developmentally than their hometowns. These findings remain consistent after applying various robustness checks and accounting for possible selection biases. We interpret these findings as evidence showing that emotional attachment, cognitive sympathy, deservedness justification and self-efficacy accrued through shared life experiences during the sensitive years of adolescence could have lasting effects in configuring leaders’ late policy preferences when they come into power. Our findings lend support to the argument that a leader’s early-life experience provides useful information to predict this leader’s policy styles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101796"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000250/pdfft?md5=f56f00cdc548789e2c8fe1f35fbeddd0&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000250-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101784
Shibashish Mukherjee , Sorin M.S. Krammer
{"title":"When the going gets tough: Board gender diversity in the wake of a major crisis","authors":"Shibashish Mukherjee , Sorin M.S. Krammer","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101784","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gender diversity on corporate boards continues to present a significant challenge, exacerbated by significant external disruptions such as financial crises or the recent COVID-19 pandemic. These exogenous shocks pressure organizations to reconcile diversity imperatives with more immediate concerns arising from the crises at hand. Employing elements from gender role and institutional theories, we argue that major exogenous shocks will negatively affect (i.e., reduce) gender diversity in corporate boards. Moreover, we propose that female CEOs and the strength of institutional mechanisms (i.e., quotas and corporate governance codes) will moderate (i.e., weaken) the negative effect of these shocks on board gender diversity. We examine these hypotheses in the context of the last global financial crisis (GFC), employing a panel of 10,181 unique firms across 21 countries between 2000 and 2015. We apply a two-way fixed effect difference-in-difference research design, complemented by an extensive battery of additional analyses to ensure robustness. Our results confirm a substantial decline in board gender diversity following the GFC. However, we do not find empirical support for female CEOs or institutional mechanisms in mitigating these diversity reductions. Following these findings, we propose several implications for research and policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101784"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000134/pdfft?md5=eb7a15633a264bb80bbc20c5efcb8a8a&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000134-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101630
{"title":"The pandemic that shocked managers across the world: The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on leadership behavior","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In March 2020, the COVID-19 virus turned into a pandemic that hit organizations globally. This pandemic qualifies as an exogenous shock. Based on the threat-rigidity hypothesis, we hypothesize that this shock led to an increase in directive leadership behavior. We also argue that this relationship depends on the magnitude of the crisis and on well-learned responses of managers. In our empirical analysis we employ a differences-in-differences design with treatment intensity and focus on the period of the first lockdown, March until June 2020. Using a dataset covering monthly data for almost 27,000 managers across 48 countries and 32 sectors for January 2019 to December 2020, we find support for the threat-rigidity hypothesis. During the first lockdown, directive leadership increased significantly. We also find that this relationship is moderated by COVID-19 deaths per country, the sectoral working from home potential, and the organizational level of management. Our findings provide new evidence how large exogenous shocks like COVID-19 can impact leadership behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 5","pages":"Article 101630"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9189185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39999630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786
Olga Epitropaki , Panagiotis Avramidis
{"title":"Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy","authors":"Olga Epitropaki , Panagiotis Avramidis","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>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 Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) and drawing from life course theory, we examine the role of employment gaps in emerging adulthood on leadership role occupancy in middle adulthood. Based on a combined sample of 9,915 respondents (NLSY79 N = 5,551; NLSY97 N = 4,567), we find strong and robust support for significant scarring effects of early-career unemployment on individuals’ future chances to occupy leadership positions in work settings. We further examine the moderating role of early life disadvantage (operationalized as family socio-economic status and childhood delinquency) and sex. Based on our main and supplementary analyses, we find some but weak support for these interaction effects. Our results based on complete case analyses support the role of early life disadvantage, showing that individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds experience stronger negative effects on leader role occupancy due to employment gaps in emerging adulthood. They further support the moderating role of sex, showing women to experience more adverse effects. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101786"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000158/pdfft?md5=7c44efb1142c259d2c62ffb66f3d0301&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000158-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141939706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101788
David J. Cooper , Giovanna d'Adda , Roberto A. Weber
{"title":"Effective leadership across economic contexts","authors":"David J. Cooper , Giovanna d'Adda , Roberto A. Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101788","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101788","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use a laboratory experiment to study how leaders affect workers’ productivity across economic incentive contexts. In four-person groups, three group members work on a production task, with a fourth member potentially serving as a leader. We vary the economic context by changing how worker pay is determined as a function of worker outputs, comparing Revenue Sharing, Weak Link or Tournament incentives while holding constant the activity performed by workers and the incentives for leaders. A second treatment varies whether groups have Active Leaders who can exert influence through messages to workers or Passive Supervisors who exert no influence. The average effect of having an Active Leader on group output is large only under Weak Link incentives. Across all incentive contexts, we find a positive correlation between the productivity increase in output produced by an Active Leader and independent ratings of leader quality based on measures from leadership research. The nature of leaders’ communication varies across incentive contexts, with comparisons between workers most common under Tournament incentives and messages about group earnings, which speak to social considerations, most common with Weak Link incentives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101788"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000171/pdfft?md5=708a88cfb140009c74ec4b5a4629ba62&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000171-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141939707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101797
Goran Kuljanin , Michael T. Braun , James A. Grand , Jeffrey D. Olenick , Georgia T. Chao , Steve W.J. Kozlowski
{"title":"Advancing Organizational Science With Computational Process Theories","authors":"Goran Kuljanin , Michael T. Braun , James A. Grand , Jeffrey D. Olenick , Georgia T. Chao , Steve W.J. Kozlowski","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101797","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organizational scholars commonly refer to organizations as complex systems unfolding as a function of work processes. Consequently, the direct study of work processes necessitates our attention. However, organizational scholars tend not to study work processes directly. Instead, organizational scholars commonly develop theories about relationships among psychological construct phenomena that indirectly reference people’s affective, behavioral, cognitive, and/or social processes as underlying explanations. Specifically, construct-oriented theories summarize processes in operation across actors, time, and contexts, and thus, provide limited insights into how focal phenomena manifest directly as a function of process operations. Construct theories remain one-step removed from articulating sequences of actions and two-steps removed from describing generative mechanisms responsible for observed actions. By “missing the action,” construct theories offer incomplete explanatory accounts and imprecise interventions. We assert that researchers in organizational science<span><span> can make progress towards addressing these concerns by directing greater attention to developing computational process theories. We begin by presenting a framework for differentiating theories based on their focus (constructs versus processes) and modality (narrative versus computational). We use the framework to contrast narrative<span> construct theories to computational process theories. We then describe key design principles for developing computational process theories and explain those principles using a leadership example. We use simulated data, from the computational process model we develop, to explicitly demonstrate the differences between construct and process thinking. We then discuss how computational process theories advance theory development. We conclude with a discussion of the long-term benefits of computational process theories for </span></span>organizational science.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101797"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141631645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leadership QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101809
Herman Aguinis , Zhuyi Angelina Li , Maw Der Foo
{"title":"The research transparency index","authors":"Herman Aguinis , Zhuyi Angelina Li , Maw Der Foo","doi":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research transparency is critical for credible and trustworthy theory and subsequent practices and policymaking. However, checking for transparency is a laborious and time-consuming task. To facilitate this process, we introduce the <em>Research Transparency Index</em> (RTI v. 1.0). The program, available at <span><span>https://www.hermanaguinis.com</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>, enables users to assess the level of transparency in both unpublished and published manuscripts. RTI provides feedback on the transparency of manuscripts describing quantitative research across key research stages: theory, design, measurement, data analysis, and reporting of results. RTI (a) assists authors in enhancing the transparency of their manuscripts before submitting them to journals and conferences, (b) provides students with guidelines to improve their understanding of research transparency, and (c) provides reviewers and journal editors with a tool to assess manuscripts and offer developmental feedback to authors. RTI saves authors, students, reviewers, and editors time by providing an automated assessment of transparency criteria, which can be updated in the future, given that we make the Python code available. Also, it promotes a culture of transparency, fostering trust and credibility in the scholarly community and among users of the knowledge we produce (e.g., organization and policy decision-makers).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48434,"journal":{"name":"Leadership Quarterly","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101809"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984324000389/pdfft?md5=fed750c7893c32a9cbd948cc35bf0fca&pid=1-s2.0-S1048984324000389-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141904844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}