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    More Motivated to Help Male Leaders? Explaining Fatherhood Bonuses via Follower Helping
    (2026-02-11) ;
    Braun, Susanne
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    Jenny M. Hoobler
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    Claudia Peus
    Family amplifies gender biases in organizations, presenting an ethical dilemma for modern organizations. Specifically, women tend to face additional barriers to leadership when they become mothers, while men often experience the opposite. But what about leaders’ family explains these fatherhood bonuses? Focusing on work-family conflict (WFC), we theorize that this ostensibly negative state paradoxically motivates followers because it signals an opportunity to expend extra effort to help their leaders. We further theorize this helping process is stronger for male (vs. female) leaders because WFC is a more noticeable violation of gendered stereotypes, which followers respond to with motivation to help their (male) leaders to resolve cognitive dissonance. A multi-source field study of leader–follower dyads (Ntotal = 290) supported our theorizing, which we causally replicated and extended with a pair of pre-registered behavioral and recall experiments (Ntotal = 920). These results inform theory and practice of gender inequalities while also revealing new mechanisms that explain behavioral fatherhood bonuses.
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    Chasing—or Escaping—the Limelight of Sustainability Media Attention? Narcissism’s Opposing Effects for Women and Men CEOs on Environmental Performance
    According to strategy research, firms with more narcissistic CEOs and firms with women CEOs exhibit better environmental performance (EP); however, we propose that better EP is unexpected when jointly considering these characteristics. Although positive attention theoretically drives more narcissistic CEOs’ EP, by considering the gendered factors influencing CEO cognition and behavior, we propose this effect reverses for women. We develop and validate a novel, earnings-call-based machine learning measure of CEO narcissism (which we also compare with existing measures by Chatterjee and Hambrick [2011] and Petrenko et al. [2016]) to test how CEO sex, narcissism, and positive attention shape EP. We triangulate evidence supporting our hypotheses from S&P 1500 firm panel data (Study 1) and an experiment with strategic leaders (Study 2): when EP generates more positive media attention, more narcissism negatively (positively) affects EP with women (men) leaders. Advancing a more precise understanding of how CEO narcissism affects EP for men and women CEOs, we explain the mixed effects of CEO narcissism and CEO sex in separately developing literatures; we also contribute to the microfoundations of (environmental) strategy with important implications for scholarship and practice while also mitigating measurement constraints in understanding the relations between CEO narcissism and firm action.
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    Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-01-20)
    Niels G. Mede
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    Viktoria Cologna
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    Sebastian Berger
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    John Besley
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    Cameron Brick
    Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study “Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism” (TISP). The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals’ trust in scientists, science-related populist attitudes, perceptions of the role of science in society, science media use and communication behaviour, attitudes to climate change and support for environmental policies, personality traits, political and religious views and demographic characteristics. Here, we describe the dataset, survey materials and psychometric properties of key variables. We encourage researchers to use this unique dataset for global comparative analyses on public perceptions of science and its role in society and policy-making.
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    Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-01-20)
    Viktoria Cologna
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    Niels G. Mede
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    Sebastian Berger
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    John Besley
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    Cameron Brick
    Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking. We found variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual- and country-level variables, including political orientation. While there is no widespread lack of trust in scientists, we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking. These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists.
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    Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-07-01)
    Viktoria Cologna
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    Simona Meiler
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    Chahan M. Kropf
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    Samuel Lüthi
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    Niels G. Mede
    Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Yet, little is known about the relationship between exposure to extreme events, subjective attribution of these events to climate change, and climate policy support, especially in the Global South. Combining large-scale natural and social science data from 68 countries (N = 71,922), we develop a measure of exposed population to extreme weather events and investigate whether exposure to extreme weather and subjective attribution of extreme weather to climate change predict climate policy support. We find that most people support climate policies and link extreme weather events to climate change. Subjective attribution of extreme weather was positively associated with policy support for five widely discussed climate policies. However, exposure to most types of extreme weather event did not predict policy support. Overall, these results suggest that subjective attribution could facilitate climate policy support.
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    How scientists' collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior
    (IOP Publishing, 2024-12-20)
    Beresford, Melissa
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    Adams, Ellis
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    Cologna, Viktoria
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    Freundt, Jana
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    Mede, Niels
    View the article online for updates and enhancements. You may also like Precipitation extremes projected to increase and to occur in different times of the year Dario Treppiedi, Gabriele Villarini, Jens Bender et al.-Regionally optimized fire parameterizations using feed-forward neural networks Yoo-Geun Ham, Seung-Ho Nam, Geun-Hyeong Kang et al.-Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures
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    MANY ROADS TO SUCCESS: BROADENING OUR VIEWS OF ACADEMIC CAREER PATHS AND ADVICE
    (2024-03-05)
    Beth Livingston
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    A. K. Ward
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    Allison S. Gabriel
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    Joanna T. Campbell
    Advice is often given to junior scholars in the field of organization science to ostensibly facilitate their career success. In this commentary, we discuss insights from 19 elite scholars (i.e., Fellows and top journal editors) about the advice they received—and often, did not follow—throughout their careers. We highlight some of the pitfalls from the current, all-too-common and often singular advice given to junior scholars while also adding necessary nuance to the requirements to achieve success in our field. We conclude with advice on how to give better advice, thereby more equitably encouraging a new generation of increasingly diverse researchers and future professors.
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    Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science
    (2024)
    Brooke Gazdag
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    Cecile Emery
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    Sebastian Andreas Tideman
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    Traditionally, leadership scholars often study snapshots of leaders in organizations. However, academic publishing offers a unique, more controlled context to study leadership with implications for leadership scholars and scholarship. Hence, we present a descriptive overview of women’s representation across 33 years in 11 top management journals across levels of leaders in academic publishing (i.e., editors, associate editors, and editorial board members) and authors. To do so, we curated an archival dataset tracking women’s representation over time and across these four levels (i.e., 21,510 authors and 4,173 leaders) with 51,360 data entries for the authors and 320,545 for the leaders. Overall, women’s representation increased over time, which was explained by simple time trend effects. Only 32 of 135 editors were women (i.e., 23.7 %), and the share of women associate editors showed particularly drastic fluctuations. We did not observe a “leaky pipeline” except from the associate editor to editor step, as well as notable fluctuations—particularly after new editor appointments—and between journals. We discuss the influential roles editors and publishers have on women’s representation in academic publishing and science more broadly as well as implications for future research and policy.
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    Research: When Employees Identify with Their Company, They’re Less Likely to Recognize Gender Discrimination
    (2024-05-03) ;
    Tyler Okimoto
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    Xinxin Li
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    Brooke Gazdag
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    Michelle Ryan
    Identifying as an organizational member — or feeling a strong sense of attachment to the organization — is generally a positive thing for employees and employers. But our research on workplace incivility and mistreatment shows that it can also shape when — and if — employees recognize and respond to subtle forms of discrimination against women at work. Evidence shows that leaders, as well as employees, play a key role in identifying and remedying gender discrimination in all its forms. If the goal is to proactively address gender discrimination in the workplace and encourage leaders and workers to remove their rose-colored glasses, this article offers a few suggestions.
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    Critical Events at Critical Times?
    A Gendered Identity Approach on the Path to (Sustainable) Leadership
    (2023) ;
    Rehbock, Stephanie
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    Kark, Ronit
    The early career phase is a key period of identity maintenance and change. But, it is also ripe with important, attention-grabbing occurrences (i.e., critical events) that may modify these processes, particularly influencing women’s leadership pursuit. Because previous research has overlooked if or how such events might alter identifying or if these processes differ for people who identify as men and women, we integrate the identity and critical events literatures to elaborate on how positive and negative critical events may shape men and women’s identifying in the work- and non-work domains over time. We propose that critical events’ effects on identity salience will occur both within and across domains, but that these effects will be stronger within (vs. across) domains. While both positive and negative events can exert negative effects on subsequent identity salience, we propose that the effects of critical events on identity salience may be stronger for women (vs. men). Finally, we connect work identity salience with subsequent leadership status, including contextual moderators that enhance or undermine these effects (i.e., inclusive organizational climate and mega-threats, respectively). We conclude with theoretical and practical implications of this research, including for workforce efficiency and social sustainability. We also highlight calls for future research stemming from our review (e.g., sustainability critical events and gendered analyses for [more] accurate science) as well as fruitful research areas and innovative practices at the work-nonwork interface for professionals on the path to leadership.
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