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44
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18657
World Ranking
1311
National Ranking
552

Overview

Craig L. Pearce is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their academic work primarily focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular emphasis on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Other notable subfields in their research include Social Psychology, Communication, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Gender Studies.

Pearce's research covers a variety of key topics including:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Organizational Learning and Leadership
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Their recent papers reflect these areas of interest. Selected works include:

  • "Leading from the inside out: a meta-analysis of how, when, and why self-leadership affects individual outcomes," 2021, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • "The Trouble with Teams... and Team Leadership: Toward a Research Agenda on the Paradoxical Nature and Reciprocal Dynamics of Vertical and Shared Leadership," 2023, Academy of Management collections.
  • "Moderated paradoxical leadership: Resolving the innovation team leadership conundrum," 2023, Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • "Shared leadership - vertical leadership dynamics in teams," 2024, Organizational Psychology Review
  • "Social Innovation Is a Team Sport: Combining Top-Down and Shared Leadership for Social Innovation," 2023, Business & Society

Frequent co-authors in Pearce's work include:

  • Christina L. Wassenaar
  • Daan van Knippenberg
  • Charles C. Manz
  • Nataly Lorinkova
  • Tom C. Hogan

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Academy of Management collections.
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Organizational Psychology Review

Craig L. Pearce also has contributions to academic publishing in the form of books, notably with Cambridge University Press. One upcoming title is Shared Leadership 2.0, scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership

    Craig L. Pearce;Jay Alden Conger;Jay Alden Conger

  • Vertical versus shared leadership as predictors of the effectiveness of change management teams: An examination of aversive, directive, transactional, transformational, and empowering leader behaviors.

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

  • Top management team diversity, group process, and strategic consensus

    Don Knight;Craig L. Pearce;Ken G. Smith;Judy D. Olian

  • The importance of vertical and shared leadership within new venture top management teams: Implications for the performance of startups ☆

    Michael D. Ensley;Keith M. Hmieleski;Craig L. Pearce

  • The future of leadership: combining vertical and shared leadership to transform knowledge work

    Craig L. Pearce

  • The future of leadership: Combining vertical and shared leadership to transform knowledge work

    Craig L. Pearce

  • The New Silver Bullets of Leadership:: The Importance of Self- and Shared Leadership in Knowledge Work

    Craig L. Pearce;Charles C. Manz

  • The moderating effect of environmental dynamism on the relationship between entrepreneur leadership behavior and new venture performance

    Michael D. Ensley;Craig L. Pearce;Keith M. Hmieleski

  • The importance of self‐ and shared leadership in team based knowledge work: A meso‐level model of leadership dynamics

    Michelle C. Bligh;Craig L. Pearce;Jeffrey C. Kohles

  • A reciprocal and longitudinal investigation of the innovation process: the central role of shared vision in product and process innovation teams (PPITs)

    Craig L. Pearce;Michael D. Ensley

  • Transactors, Transformers and Beyond. A Multi-Method Development of a Theoretical Typology of Leadership.

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims;Jonathan F. Cox;Gail Ball

  • Shared cognition in top management teams: implications for new venture performance

    Michael D. Ensley;Craig L. Pearce

  • Empowering leadership: An examination of mediating mechanisms within a hierarchical structure

    Robert P. Vecchio;Joseph E. Justin;Craig L. Pearce

  • All those years ago : The historical underpinnings of shared leadership

    Craig L. Pearce;Jay A. Conger;Jay A. Conger

  • Top management team process, shared leadership, and new venture performance: A theoretical model and research agenda

    Michael D. Ensley;Allison Pearson;Craig L. Pearce

  • Shared Leadership: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Leadership

    Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

  • Toward a model of shared leadership and distributed influence in the innovation process: How shared leadership can enhance new product development team dynamics and effectiveness

    Jonathan F. Cox;Craig L. Pearce;Monica L. Perry

  • Empowered Selling Teams: How Shared Leadership Can Contribute to Selling Team Outcomes

    Monica L. Perry;Craig L. Pearce;Henry P. Sims

  • Citizenship behavior at the team level of analysis: The effects of team leadership, team commitment, perceived team support, and team size

    Craig L. Pearce;Pamela A. Herbik

  • Shared leadership theory

    Craig L. Pearce;Jay A. Conger;Edwin A. Locke

  • Is the most effective team leadership shared? The impact of shared leadership, age diversity, and coordination on team performance.

    Julia Elisabeth Hoch;Craig L. Pearce;Linda Welzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles C. Manz
Charles C. Manz University of Massachusetts Amherst
Henry P. Sims
Henry P. Sims University of Maryland, College Park
Jay A. Conger
Jay A. Conger Claremont McKenna College
Robert P. Vecchio
Robert P. Vecchio University of Notre Dame
Günter K. Stahl
Günter K. Stahl Vienna University of Economics and Business
Edwin A. Locke
Edwin A. Locke University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher P. Neck
Christopher P. Neck Arizona State University
Robert A. Giacalone
Robert A. Giacalone Texas State University
David A. Waldman
David A. Waldman Arizona State University
Ken G. Smith
Ken G. Smith University of Maryland, College Park

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