Today’s organizations have come to view and to use workplace teams as information processors, making the ability to manage knowledge and expertise an essential pre-requisite for effective group decisions. Consequently, an important mandate for leaders of information processing groups is to...

Organizations often match leaders with followers in order to foster cooperation, mitigate free riding, and thereby accomplish tasks effectively. This paper studies the effect of organization styles on leaders' choices of leadership strategy, and the effect of this choice on free-riding behavior....

We attempt to resolve the seemingly contradictory findings that leaders in teams sometimes advance team outcomes and in other instances thwart performance. In two experiments, we examined the information sharing patterns of team leaders and their impact on decision quality. Contrary to previous...

This article focuses on crisis management and leadership by executives, boards, and institutions and applies research on resilience, power, and sensemaking in the analysis of the ousting and subsequent return of a chief executive by the board of directors. Insights are shared on the transparency...

In this paper we report the results of three experimental studies designed to test how demographic characteristics affect outsiders' assessments of a firm's top managers. We draw on theories of evaluation, status characteristics, and social identity to examine the interactive effects of...

Recent research has revealed that the recognition of expertise within groups is essential for group performance. Nevertheless, groups often fail to recognize and capitalize on the expert resources that they contain. In part, such failures may be attributed to the differential manner in which...

The contribution of unique knowledge of experts within groups is essential for organizational productivity. Our study examined the combined status effects of expert and reward power on expert members' participation, influence and performance within decision-making groups. Previous research on...