Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Publications

• Thompson, Geir; Buch, Robert, Campbell, W. Keith & Glasø, Lars (2025)
  Is there an upside to leader narcissism?
  Dynamic Relationships Management Journal.
• Thompson, Geir; Buch, Robert, Campbell, K. & Glasø, Lars (2025)
  Is there an upside to leader narcissism?
  Dynamic Relationships Management Journal.
• Thompson, Geir; Buch, Robert & Thompson, Per-Magnus Moe (2025)
  Increased span of supervision: an obstacle for effective leadership style?
  Dynamic Relationships Management Journal.
• Mayiwar, Lewend; Løhre, Erik, Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad & Hærem, Thorvald (2025)
  Desire for Status is Positively Associated With Overconfidence: A Replication and Extension of Study 5 in Anderson et al. (2012)
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin, Furnham, Adrian, Horne, George, Longhurst, Phaedra & Tran, Ulrich S. (2025)
  Is nature exposure in autistic adults associated with more positive body image?
  Body image, 52. Doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101854
• Mignacca, Benito; Sainati, Tristano & Locatelli, Giorgio (2025)
  Financing energy technologies from invention to innovation: A novel analytical framework
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 211. Doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2024.115288
• Rostad, Ingrid Steen & Langvik, Eva Oddrun (2025)
  “It’s the workload, not the pictures that keep me up at night.” Experiences of Norwegian police prosecutors working with child abuse cases
  International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 80. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2024.100723
• Ding, Haien & Kuvaas, Bård (2025)
  Exploring the necessary roles of basic psychological needs at work: A necessary condition analysis
  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(1). Doi: 10.1111/joop.70012
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  Self-determination theory (SDT) postulates that all humans have basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. SDT scholars employ a necessity logic to define and interpret the roles of psychological need satisfaction for optimal human development. However, traditional regression techniques, often applied to test hypotheses derived from SDT, are unsuitable for testing necessity statements. To achieve a theory-method alignment, we employed necessary condition analysis (NCA) to examine whether basic psychological needs at work are necessary for employees' intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, life satisfaction, and vigour at work. Study 1's cross-sectional data (N = 550; Germany) and Study 2's time-lagged data (N = 417; UK and US) generally support the necessary roles of need satisfaction. Notably, intrinsic motivation and vigour are especially constrained by basic psychological need satisfaction. This research advances SDT by providing more precise accounts of the theory from a necessity-oriented lens. We also highlight the importance of management practices that can satisfy employees' basic psychological needs at work.

• Furnham, Adrian (2025)
  Personality and the education process: Individual difference preferences for teacher, technology, testing, time and topic
  Learning and Individual Differences, 119. Doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102637
• Loncar, Lea; Rostad, Ingrid Steen, Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild & Langvik, Eva Oddrun (2025)
  Resources to mitigate health impairment among police employees investigating child abuse: a qualitative study exploring the availability of organisational support
  Cogent Psychology, 12(1). Doi: 10.1080/23311908.2025.2449733
• Kopperud, Karoline & Kost, Dominique (2025)
  You cannot start a fire without a spark: Strengths-based leadership and personal initiative
  Journal of General Management (JGM). Doi: 10.1177/03063070251315975
• Norrøne, Tore Nøttestad & Nordmo, Morten (2025)
  Comparing Proctored and Unproctored Cognitive Ability Testing in High-Stakes Personnel Selection
  International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 33(1). Doi: 10.1111/ijsa.70001
• Gottschalk, Petter (2025)
  White Collar Crime
  Doi: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc158.pub2
• van Berkel, Rik & Breit, Eric (2025)
  Organizational Practices and Their Outcomes for Employees with Disabilities: A Review and Synthesis of Quantitative Studies
  Journal of occupational rehabilitation. Doi: 10.1007/s10926-025-10283-6
• Breit, Eric; Bråthen, Magne & Sadeghi, Talieh (2025)
  Distinctions between inclusive and non-inclusive companies for persons with disability: Exploring the impact of COM-B and HRM practices
  Work : A journal of Prevention, Assesment and rehabilitation. Doi: 10.1177/10519815251320275
• Loncar, Lea; Rostad, Ingrid Steen, Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild & Langvik, Eva (2025)
  Organisational Support for Police Employees Investigating Child Abuse in Norway
  Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing (NJSP), 12(1). Doi: 10.18261/njsp.12.1.1
• Kipfelsberger, Petra & Gottschalk, Petter (2025)
  The transfer of meaningfulness from leaders to followers as partners in crime: The case of a married lawyer and his accountant wife in embezzlement and money laundering
  Deviant Behavior, p. 1-18.
• Paolino, Chiara; De Molli, Federica & Pinardi, F (2025)
  The emotional side of collecting: disgust and attraction in the art market
  International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 16(1), p. 75-94. Doi: 10.1504/IJWOE.2025.144496
• Aksnes, Siri Yde & Breit, Eric (2025)
  Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers
  Journal of Social Policy. Doi: 10.1017/S0047279425000030
• Haakonsen, Jon Magnus F; Furnham, Adrian & Cupello, Stephen (2025)
  Personality correlates of the five hindrances: a pilot study
  Mental Health, Religion & Culture. Doi: 10.1080/13674676.2024.2440487
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  Buddhist teachings describe five hindrances to meditation and personal development: Sensory Desire, Ill-Will, Sloth and Torpor, Restlessness and Worry, and Sceptical Doubt. We developed a new 25-item measure for these hindrances and examined their relationships with demographics and personality traits. A sample of 263 adults completed the measure, a six-factor personality assessment, and provided demographic information. The hindrances demonstrated satisfactory internal reliability, but results showed only modest support for the measure's factor structure. Our analyses revealed minimal gender differences and no significant educational effects, but suggested that older participants were less affected by the hindrances. The personality factors showed a strong correlation with the hindrances, particularly in the domains of Adjustment and Risk Approach (Courage), where all relationships were negatively correlated. While the new scale offers practitioners insights into mental states affecting mindfulness, further refinement is needed. This pilot study encourages continued research into these hindrances and their broader implications.

• Dries, Nicky; Luyckx, Joost, Stephan, Ute & Collings, David (2025)
  The future of work: A research agenda
  Journal of Management.
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  In this commentary, we discuss and define the ‘future of work’ as a phenomenon and research area, and outline avenues for further research at the conceptual and empirical level. We first offer a brief review of the different streams of research that study the future of work, both in management and organization studies and in adjacent fields. We then elaborate on what we see as the most promising avenues for research on the future of work, organized around five questions of what, when, who, how, and why. That is, research on the future of work needs to clarify its assumptions about (1) the phenomena it considers within scope; (2) the temporality associated with these phenomena; (3) which future of work actors it is about, and who it is for; (4) the methods and data types used to be able to study the future empirically; and (5) desired impact and envisioned outcomes. We discuss how moving beyond technodeterminism, depoliticization, and a present-day focus could open up new and important avenues for further research on the near and distant future of work. We conclude with some specific examples of research questions and methods.

• Dries, Nicky; Luyckx, Joost & Bogaert, Max (2025)
  Neo-Luddites, Unite! Worker Resistance in an Era of Real Dystopian Threats
  Organization Studies. Doi: 0.1177/01708406251321609
• Mignacca, Benito; Sainati, Tristano & Locatelli, Giorgio (2025)
  Financing energy technologies from invention to innovation: A novel analytical framework
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 211.
• Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad; Løhre, Erik, Skjellet, Jenny & Kanten, Alf Børre (2025)
  Communicated and Perceived Public Consensus About Climate Change
  Collabra: Psychology, 11(1). Doi: 10.1525/collabra.130896
• Frøyland, Kjetil; Breit, Eric & Spjelkavik, Øystein (2025)
  Engaged employers - engaged workplaces? Exploring workplace resistance to work inclusion of persons with disabilities (PwD)
  Work : A journal of Prevention, Assesment and rehabilitation.
• Furnham, Adrian & Fenton-O'creevy, Mark (2024)
  MONEY ATTITUDES, BUDGETING AND HABITS
  The Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, p. 1-18. Doi: 10.1142/S2282717X24500014
• Eikum, Rune Schanke (2024)
  Unleashing the potential of regenerative leadership: A practice approach
• Eikum, Rune Schanke & Carlsen, Arne (2024)
  Becoming greener: Connecting events and mobilizing artifacts in individual sustainability journeys
• Müller, Ralf Josef (2024)
  Balanced leadership
  Doi: 10.4324/9781003274179
• Müller, Ralf Josef (2024)
  The governance of projects
  Doi: 10.4324/9781003274179-45
• Føllesdal, Hallvard (2024)
  Agree or Agree a Little? The Rating Scale in the BFI-2 Causes Extreme Responses
  Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
• Nordmo, Magnus; Sunde, Hans Fredrik, Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau, Nordmo, Morten, Caspi, Avshalom, Moffitt, Terrie E. & Torvik, Fartein Ask (2024)
  Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males
  PsyArXiv. Doi: 10.31234/osf.io/g824h
• Andvik, Elisabeth; Egeland, Therese, Schei, Vidar & Andvik, Christian (2024)
  Escaping the Professional Identity “Straitjacket”: Towards a Model of Identity Plasticity
  Proceedings and Membership Directory - Academy of Management.
• Müller, Ralf Josef; Drouin, Nathalie & Shankar, Sankaran (2024)
  Balanced Leadership: Making use of all leadership skills in the project team
  Doi: 10.1201/9781003502654
• Kipfelsberger, Petra & Shantz, Amanda (2024)
  Meaningful work
  Doi: 10.4337/9781803921761.00076
• Bakken, Bjørn Tallak; Hærem, Thorvald & Lund-Kordahl, Inger (2024)
  BUILDING COMPETENCE AGAINST HYBRID THREATS Training and exercising hybrid command organizations
  Doi: 10.4324/9781032617916-19
• Wang, Linzhuo & Jiang, Mengtong (2024)
  Digital Platforms: Empowering and transforming collaborations
• Koppenjan, Joop; Verweij, Stefan & van marrewijk, Alfons (2024)
  The Netherlands
• Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian (2024)
  Predicting Performance of Call Center Staff: The Role of Cognitive Ability and Emotional Intelligence
  Psychology International, 6(4), p. 903-916. Doi: 10.3390/psycholint6040058
• Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth & Swärd, Anna Sundberg (2024)
  An Organization Science Perspective on Collaboration in Construction Projects: Implications of practice theory.
• Løhre, Erik; Høstaker, Markus & Hoprekstad, Øystein Løvik (2024)
  Profit Motives, Environmental Motives, and Perceived Corporate Greenwashing Revisited: A Replication and Extension of de Vries et al. (2015)
  Psychologia Społeczna, 19, p. 1-24. Doi: 10.32872/spb.12875
• Jevnaker, Birgit Helene; Conti, Emanuela & Sorini, Laerte (2024)
  Exploring Eco-Design Strategies in Italian Design-Driven Firms
  International Journal of Economic Behavior, 14(1), p. 53-75. Doi: 10.14276/2285-0430.4567
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  Given the growing emergence of environmental challenges, firms must reduce environmental impacts and achieve business performance. Hence, we investigate how environmental sustainability approaches relate to design-driven innovation (DDI) in the context of new product development, focusing on active design-oriented firms in Italy's industrial sector. This paper, in particular, addresses to what extent eco approaches to design are adopted and connected to new product development in these innovation-driven firms, and how such approaches relate to innovation, customer value creation, and business performance. These relationships are examined through an empirical investigation of the Italian manufacturing companies associated with the Industrial Design Association (ADI, Associazione del Design Industriale), from the entrepreneurial perspective. The study reveals three different clusters of companies with varying levels of adoption of eco-design approaches and a combination of such approaches. One cluster reveals the highest level of adoption of all the types of approaches, the second a high level of adoption of three types of approaches (durability, reduction, recycling), and a low level of adoption of the other three types (reparability, disassembling, regeneration) and a third cluster performs a medium level of adoption of all the types of approaches. Further, we discovered that from the entrepreneur's perspective, firms adopting design for durability and design for recycling approaches positively and significantly impact innovation, customer value and business performance. By identifying diverse eco-design approaches in design-oriented enterprises, the study offers a significant contribution to understanding the relationship between design-driven innovation and environmental sustainability.

• Olaisen, Johan Leif & Jevnaker, Birgit Helene (2024)
  A Comparative Study of ECKM Academic Papers 2017-23
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  The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of ECKM in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conferences in Coventry 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the conference was arranged in Naples, and 2023, in Lisbon, both as hybrid conferences. The study classifies the papers according to methodology, analysis, discussion, and conclusion regarding their contribution to the four paradigmatic boxes. The approach uses the five philosophy of science framework and compares this to the content of the research papers. We will use the findings in four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, four paradigmatic classifications, and the concluding framework for knowledge management research. The seven conferences heavily emphasize knowledge-itis and instrumental itis and much less on problem-itis. The papers are mostly centered around existing knowledge and accepted methodology and are less related to new problems. The results indicate a conference based upon as-is knowledge and less upon new and often unsolvable issues. The ECKM academic papers in 2017, 2018, and 2019 have relatively low complexity and are presented in an empirical and materialistic paradigmatic framework through definitive concepts representing a form of atomistic research. The papers in 2020, 2021, and especially 2022 and 2023 are delivered within a more robust, clarified subjectivity and action research-based framework through definitive and sensitizing concepts. What would ECKM have been with more complexity in action and subjective paradigmatic framework through sensitizing concepts representing holistic research? A more creative, engaged, and relevant conference. It will also be a more scientific conference discussing what is acceptable or not acceptable and what is adequate. Studies concerning sustainability, digitalization, and globalization might require another research approach. The more critical and green papers in the 2020 and 2021 conferences are open to new perspectives on methodology, problems, and knowledge. The 2022 and 2023 conferences represent a turning point for critical sustainability and digitalization papers that clarify subjectivity through action-based research. The 2022 and 2023 papers represent the turning point of ECKM into improved relevance through more critical and constructed studies based on the societal climate crisis and sustainable strategies and business models

• Wang, Linzhuo; Wang, Xinnan & Müller, Ralf Josef (2024)
  Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects
  International Journal of Project Management, 42(6). Doi: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2024.102635
• Neto, Joana; Neto, Félix & Furnham, Adrian (2024)
  Correlates of money attitudes among Portuguese people
  Financial Planning Review. Doi: 10.1002/cfp2.1189
• De Winne, Sophie; Marescaux, Elise, Raets, Emma & Dries, Nicky (2024)
  Co-workers’ reactions to (Mis)Alignment between supervisors’ intentions and Co-workers’ perceptions of I-deal secrecy: An uncertainty management perspective
  Group & Organization Management. Doi: 10.1177/10596011241273430
• Mayiwar, Lewend; Erkin, Asutay, Gustav, Tinghög, Daniel, Västfjäll & Kinga, Barrafrem (2024)
  Determinants of digital well-being
  AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, p. 1-11. Doi: 10.1007/s00146-024-02071-2
• Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Hill, Inge (2024)
  Heritage craft entrepreneuring in 'the wild': the role of entrepreneurial placemaking for rural development
• Furnham, Adrian; Cuppello, Stephen & Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark (2024)
  Correlates of Stock Market Investment
  Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics (JNPE). Doi: 10.1037/npe0000189
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  In this study, we were concerned with the correlates of stock market (SM) participation. In all, 1,202 working adults indicated whether or not they invested in the stock market, and which was split almost equally between those that did and did not. We were interested in the extent to which their demography (age, sex, education), self-assessed wealth, as well as personality traits predicted their participation. We used a six-factor robust measure of work personality (High Potential Trait Indicator). Correlational analysis indicated that the strongest correlation of stock market participation were wealth, sex, age, and trait Risk Tolerance. We then did a binary logistic regression which indicated that being male increased the odds of having invested in the stock market by 91%, and an increase of 1 year in age increased the odds by 3%. Ambiguity Acceptance and trait Competitiveness were among the High Potential Trait Indicator personality variables that were significant predictors of stock market investment. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.

• Gottschalk, Petter (2024)
  Deterrence effects despite lack of prosecution: Punishment outcomes of white-collar crime investigations in Norway
  Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 18, p. 1-8. Doi: 10.1093/police/paae015
• Mayiwar, Lewend; Hærem, Thorvald & Løhre, Erik (2024)
  Self-Distancing Regulates the Effect of Incidental Anger (vs. Fear) on Affective Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 37(2), p. 1-12. Doi: 10.1002/bdm.2378
• Gottschalk, Petter (2024)
  When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm
  Deviant Behavior, p. 1-10. Doi: 10.1080/01639625.2024.2335546
• Gottschalk, Petter (2024)
  Money laundering prevention: The challenge of insurance termination for outlaw biker gangs' club houses
  Journal of Money Laundering Control, 27(6), p. 1040-1050. Doi: 10.1108/JMLC-01-2024-0003
• Gottschalk, Petter (2024)
  Deferred Prosecution Agreements as Miscarriage of Justice: An Exploratory Study of Corporate Convenience
  Journal of Economic Criminology, 4, p. 1-7. Doi: 10.1016/j.jeconc.2024.100059
• Gollwitzer, Anton; Bao, Evelina & Oettingen, Gabriele (2024)
  Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual-based approach to belief revision
  British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(3), p. 1-29. Doi: 10.1111/bjso.12732
• Koppang, Haavard; Hærem, Thorvald, Mayiwar, Lewend & Pineda, Jaime A (2024)
  Physical and social warmth
  Royal Society Open Science, 11(5), p. 1-10. Doi: 10.1098/rsos.231575
• Wang, Linzhuo; Wang, Xinnan & Liu, Xuemei (2024)
  Project Governance and Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks: Toward Understanding Their Relationships and Future Research Agenda
  Project Management Journal, p. 1-10. Doi: 10.1177/87569728241241506
• Campbell-Hewson, Cristina; Grover, Simmy, Furnham, Adrian & McClelland, Alastair (2024)
  To what extent do lay people and healthcare providers differ in the allocation of scarce medical resources in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?
  Clinical Ethics, p. 1-24. Doi: 10.1177/14777509241248966