Research

In our research, we strive to make meaningful contributions to management research and theory. We and our collaborators aim to help make research more open, rigorous, and credible. We hope that doing so can ensure that findings from our field can make a better impact on meaningful, evidence-based policy. Our work has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Discoveries, and The Leadership Quarterly, amongst others. Below you can find a list of our key publications aimed at improving the credibility of management and organizational research. For a full list of the publications of our research team, please visit our Google Scholar, Web of Science, or the respective university homepages.

  • Gerpott, F. H., Briker, R., & Banks, G. C. (2024). New ways of seeing: Four ways you have not thought about Registered Reports yet. The Leadership Quarterly, 35(2), 101783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101783. (Full Access).

  • Lanz, L., Briker, R., & Gerpott, F. H. (2024). Employees adhere more to unethical instructions from human than AI supervisors: Complementing experimental evidence with machine learning. Journal of Business Ethics, 189(3), 625–646. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05393-1. (Open Access).

  • Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak-Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., … Briker, R. ... & Lutz, A. E. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6), eadj5778. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778. (Open Access).

  • Briker, R., & Gerpott, F. H. (2023). Publishing Registered Reports in Management and Applied Psychology: Common Beliefs and Best Practices. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/10944281231210309. (Open Access).

  • Klonek, F., Gerpott, F. H., & Parker, S. K. (2023). A conceptual replication of ambidextrous leadership theory: An experimental approach. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(4), 101473. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101473. (Open Access)

  • Sieweke, J., Bostandzic, D., & Smolinski, S. M. (2023). The influence of top management team gender diversity on firm performance during stable periods and economic crises: An instrumental variable analysis. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(5), 101703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101703.

  • Schweitzer, V., Gerpott, F. H., Rivkin, W., & Stollberger, J. (2023). (Don't) mind the gap? Daily information gaps compound curiosity yet also feed frustration at work. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 178, 104276. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104276. (Open Access)

  • Van der Velde, A., & Gerpott, F. H. (2023). When subordinates do not follow: A typology of subordinate resistance as perceived by leaders. The Leadership Quarterly, 34, 101687. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101687. (Open Access)

  • Briker, R., Hohmann, S., & Walter, F. (2021). A dyadic approach toward the interpersonal consequences of time pressure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27, 546–562. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000325.

  • Briker. R., & Walter, F. (2021). Do temporal social comparisons matter? A replication of Study 1a of Reh, Tröster, and Van Quaquebeke (2018). Social Psychology, 52(5), 314–319. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000458. (Open Access).

  • Jacquart, P., Santoni, S., Schudy, S., Sieweke, J., & Withers, M. C. (2020). Special issue on harnessing exogenous shocks for leadership and management research. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(5). https:/doi.org/10.1016/S1048-2030091.

  • Columbus, S., & Münich, J., & Gerpott, F. H. (2020). Playing a different game: Situation perception mediates framing effects on cooperative behaviour. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 104006. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104006 and https://osf.io/fm562/. (Open Access)

  • Sieweke, J., & Santoni, S. (2020). Natural experiments in leadership research: An introduction, review, and guidelines. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(1), 101338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101338. (Open Access)

  • Haack, P., & Sieweke, J. (2020). Advancing the measurement of organizational legitimacy, reputation, and status: First-order judgments vs second-order judgments—Commentary on “Organizational legitimacy, reputation and status: Insights from micro-level management”. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(1), 153-158. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2019.0103