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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
122
Citations
162836
World Ranking
13
National Ranking
7

Psychology

D-Index
125
Citations
163478
World Ranking
202
National Ranking
126

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Bruce J. Avolio is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Business, Management and Accounting, alongside Psychology. Their work frequently intersects subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research addresses key topics including Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Cultural Differences and Values, Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Management and Organizational Studies, and Personality Traits and Psychology.

Recent publications by Bruce J. Avolio and collaborators include:

  • "Behavioral Integrity: Examining the Effects of Trust Velocity and Psychological Contract Breach" (2020, Journal of Business Ethics)
  • "Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal" (2022, Strategic Management Journal)
  • "Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools" (2022, Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies)
  • "How leader and follower prototypical and antitypical attributes influence ratings of transformational leadership in an extreme context" (2020, Human Relations)
  • "Take a 'Selfie': Examining How Leaders Emerge From Leader Self-Awareness, Self-Leadership, and Self-Efficacy" (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Journal of Business Ethics

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Sean T. Hannah, Fong T. Keng, Eva M. Bracht, Lisa Dragoni, and Yiming Huang.

Bruce J. Avolio has contributed to academic book publishing as well, with a publication titled Organizational Transformation (2020) released by Stanford University Press eBooks.

The scientist has been recognized with several distinctions including being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2002 and holding the position of Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Improving Organizational Effectiveness through Transformational Leadership

    Bernard M. Bass;Bruce J. Avolio

  • Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership

    Bruce J. Avolio;William L. Gardner

  • POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PERFORMANCE AND SATISFACTION

    Fred Luthans;Bruce J. Avolio;James B. Avey;Steven M. Norman

  • Re‐examining the components of transformational and transactional leadership using the Multifactor Leadership

    Bruce J. Avolio;Bernard M. Bass;Dong I. Jung

  • Predicting unit performance by assessing transformational and transactional leadership

    Bernard M. Bass;Bruce J. Avolio;Dong I. Jung;Yair Berson

  • Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure†:

    Fred O. Walumbwa;Bruce J. Avolio;William L. Gardner;Tara S. Wernsing

  • Transformational Leadership And Organizational Culture

    Bernard M. Bass;Bruce J. Avolio

  • Psychological Capital: Developing the Human Competitive Edge

    Fred Luthans;Carolyn M. Youssef;Bruce J. Avolio

  • Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions

    Bruce J. Avolio;Fred O. Walumbwa;Todd J. Weber

  • Transformational leadership, transactional leadership, locus of control, and support for innovation: key predictors of consolidated-business-unit performance

    Jane M. Howell;Bruce J. Avolio

  • Unlocking the mask: a look at the process by which authentic leaders impact follower attitudes and behaviors

    Bruce J. Avolio;William L. Gardner;Fred O. Walumbwa;Fred Luthans

  • “Can you see the real me?” A self-based model of authentic leader and follower development

    William L. Gardner;Bruce J. Avolio;Fred Luthans;Douglas R. May

  • Impact of Transformational Leadership on Follower Development and Performance: A Field Experiment

    Taly Dvir;Dov Eden;Bruce J. Avolio;Boas Shamir

  • Context and leadership: An examination of the nine-factor full-range leadership theory using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire.

    John Antonakis;Bruce J Avolio;Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

  • Full leadership development : building the vital forces in organizations

    Bruce J. Avolio

  • Transformational leadership and organizational commitment: mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of structural distance

    Bruce J. Avolio;Weichun Zhu;William Koh;Puja Bhatia

  • Transformational leadership: A response to critiques.

    Bernard M. Bass;Bruce J. Avolio

  • Psychological capital development: toward a micro-intervention

    Fred Luthans;James B. Avey;Bruce J. Avolio;Steven M. Norman

  • The mediating role of psychological capital in the supportive organizational climate—employee performance relationship

    Fred Luthans;Steven M. Norman;Bruce J. Avolio;James B. Avey

  • Developing Transformational Leadership: 1992 and Beyond

    Bernard M. Bass;Bruce J. Avolio

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard M. Bass
Bernard M. Bass Binghamton University
Fred Luthans
Fred Luthans University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Sean T. Hannah
Sean T. Hannah Wake Forest University
Fred O. Walumbwa
Fred O. Walumbwa Florida International University
John J. Sosik
John J. Sosik Pennsylvania State University
David A. Waldman
David A. Waldman Arizona State University
Francis J. Yammarino
Francis J. Yammarino Binghamton University
William L. Gardner
William L. Gardner Texas Tech University
Leanne E. Atwater
Leanne E. Atwater University of Houston
Steve W. J. Kozlowski
Steve W. J. Kozlowski University of South Florida

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