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Faculty Research

Faculty research covers a broad range of issues and topics relevant to leadership. We encourage you to look at the individual faculty profiles located on the Stanford Graduate School of Business homepage for additional references. Selected faculty research citations are shown below.

Baron, David P. (2005). Competing for the public through the news media. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 14(2), 339-376, 38p.

Burgelman, Robert. A. & Valikangas, L. (2005). Internal Corporate Venturing Cycles: A Nagging Strategic Leadership Challenge. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1908.

Burgelman, Robert. A., Christensen, C. M., & Wheelwright, S. C. (2004). Strategic management of technology and innovation. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Burton, Diane M., Hannan, M. T., & Baron, J. N. (1998). Determinants of Managerial Intensity in the Early Years of Organizations. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1550.

Chatman, Jennifer, O'Reilly, C. & Chang, V. (2005). Cisco systems: Developing a human capital strategy. California Management Review, 47(2), 137-167, 31p.

Cialdini, Robert B., Pfeffer, J., Benjamin, H., & Knopoff, Kathleen. (1997). Faith in Supervision and the Self-Enhancement Bias: Two Psychological Reasons Why Managers Don't Empower Workers. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1432

Cohen, Allan R. & Bradford, D. L. (2005). The influence model: Using reciprocity and exchange to get what you need. Journal of Organizational Excellence, 25(1), 57-80, 24p.

Core, John. E., Guay, W. & Larcker, D. (2003). Executive equity compensation and incentives: A survey. Economic Policy Review (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), 9(1), 27-50, 24p.

Davila, Antonio, & Venkatachalam, M. (2004). The relevance of non-financial performance measures for CEO compensation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. Review of Accounting Studies, 9(4), 443-464, 22p.

DeMarzo, Peter M., Fishman, M. J., & Hagerty, K. M. (2005). Self-Regulation and Government Oversight. Review of Economic Studies, 72(252), 687-706, 20p.

Denrell, Jerker C. (2004). Comment: The performance of performance. Journal of Management & Governance, 8(4), 345-349, 5p.

Ferraro, Fabrizio, Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R. (2005). Economics language and assumptions: How theories can become self-fulfilling. Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 8-24, 17p.

Ferraro, Fabrizio,Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R. (2005). Prescriptions are not enough. Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 32-35, 4p. 

Fragale, Alison & Heath, C. (2004). Evolving Informational Credentials: The (Mis)attribution of Believeable Facts to Credible Sources. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 30(2), 225-236, 12p.

Galinsky, A. D., Magee, J. C., Inesi, M. E., & Gruenfeld, D. H. (in press) Power and Perspectives Not Taken. Psychological Science.

Galinsky, Adam D., Gruenfeld, D. & Magee, J. (2003). From Power to Action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85 (3), 453-466, 14p.

Gruenfeld, Deborah, Inesi, E., Magee, J., & Galinsky, (under review) A. Power and Objectification of Social Targets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Gruenfeld, Deborah, Magee, J., & Galinsky, A. (in press) Power, Propensity to Negotiate, and Moving First in Competitive Interactions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Gruenfeld, Deborah, Galinsky, A., Magee, J., Inesi, E. (2005). How do I think upon another? The effects of power on perspective taking and objectification. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology: New Orleans.

Gruenfeld, Deborah, Inesi, E., Magee, J., & Galinsky, A.  (2005). Power and objectification:  Seeing others through a lens of self interest. Presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management: Honolulu. Hawaii.

Hayes, R., Oyer, P., Schaefer, S. (2006). Coworker complementarity and the stability of top-management teams. Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 22(1), 184-212, 29p.

Keltner, Dacher, Gruenfeld, D. H., & Anderson, C. (2000). Power, Approach and Inhibition. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1669.

Kramer, Roderick M. (in press) Identity threats and identity repairs: How leaders construe and respond to identity threatening predicaments. In Political Psychology. Psychology Press.

Kramer, Roderick M. (in press) Self-defeating influence behavior. In A.R. Pratkanis (Ed.), The Science of Social Influence: Advances and Future Progress. Psychology Press.

Kramer, Roderick M. (2006). The great intimidators. Harvard Business Review, 84(2), 88-96, 9p.

Kramer, Roderick M. (2005). A Failure to Communicate: 9/11 and the Tragedy of the Informational Commons. International Public Management Journal, 8(3), 397- 416, 20p.

Kramer, Roderick M. & Cook, Karen S., eds. (2004). Trust and distrust in organizations: Dilemmas and approaches. Vol.7, The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Kramer, Roderick M. (2003). The harder they fall. Harvard Business Review, 81(10), 58-66, 8p.

Larcker, David F. (2003). Discussion of "are executive stock options associated with future earnings?" Journal of Accounting and Economics, 36(1-3), 91-103, 13p.

Messick, David M. & Kramer, Roderick M., eds. (2004). Psychology of leadership: New perspectives and research. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Meyerson, Deborah (2004). The tempered radicals. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2(2),14-23, 9p.

Morrill, Calvin, Zald, M. & Rao, H. (2003). Covert political conflict in organizations: Challenges from Below. Annual Review of Sociology, 29(1), 391-415, 25p.

Neale, Margaret A. (2004). Is a Meeting Worth the Time? Barriers to Effective Group Decision-Making in Organizations. Vol. 6 Research in Managing Groups and Teams: Time in Groups. Stamford, CN: JAI Press.

Neale, Margaret A., Curhan, J., Gerber, L. & Ross, L. (2004). Dynamic valuation: preference change in the context of face-to-face negotiations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 142-151.

O'Reilly, Charles A. & Main, B. G. (2005). Setting the CEO's pay: Economic and psychological perspectives. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1912.

O'Reilly, Charles A., Caldwell, D. F., & Chatman, J. A. (2005) How Leadership Matters: The effects of Leadership Alignment on Strategic Execution. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1895.

O'Reilly, Charles A. & Tushman, M. (2004). The Ambidextrous Organization. Harvard Business Review, 82(4), 74-84, 8p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2006). Double Down on Execs Who Own Up It Pays to invest in CEOs who blame themselves when things go wrong. Business 2.0, 7(3), 80-80, 1p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, & Sutton, R. I. (2006). Sometimes less is more. Leadership Excellence, 23(3), 14-15, 2p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey & Sutton, R. I. (2006). Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense: Profiting from evidence-based management. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey & Sutton, R. I. (2006). Evidence-based management. Harvard Business Review, 84(1), 76-87.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Dee, T., Grousebeck, H. I., & Peterson, J.C. (2005). Three Common CEO Misteps (A Perspective From The Boardroom). Stanford Graduate School of Business Case #E-201

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2005). Admissions of ignorance. Business 2.0, 6(10), 82-82, 1p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2005). Breaking Through Excuses. Business 2.0, 6(4), 76-76, 1p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2005). Why do bad management theories persist? A comment on Ghoshal. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4 (1), 96-100, 5p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey & Fong, C. T. (2005). Building Organization Theory from First Principles: The Self-Enhancement Motive and Understanding Power and Influence. Organization Science, 16(4), 372-388, 17p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2004). A field day for executives think you're a great leader?  Try doing the work of those you lead. Business 2.0, 5 (11), 88-88, 1p.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2004). Managers not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49 (3), 476.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey (2001). Business and the Spirit: Management Practices that Sustain Values. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1713

Phills, James A. (2005). Leadership matters, or does it? Leader to Leader, 36, 46-52, 7p.

Phills, James A. (2005). Integrating mission and strategy for nonprofit organizations. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pollock, Tim, Wade, J., & O'Reilly, C. (1996). Overpaid CEOs and Underpaid Managers: Equity and Executive Compensation. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1410

Rotemberg, Julio J. & Saloner, G. (1998). Visionaries, Managers, and Strategic Direction. Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1497

Sinaceur, M., Heath, C., & Cole, S. (2005). Emotional and deliberative reactions to a public crisis. Psychological Science, 16(3), 247-254, 8p.