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Overview

Gilad Chen is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on business, management, and accounting. Within these broad categories, Chen's work emphasizes subfields such as sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, strategy and management, and communication.

Their main topics of study include knowledge management and sharing, team dynamics and performance, social and intergroup psychology, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, innovation and knowledge management, cultural differences and values, and sports analytics and performance.

Chen has published in a variety of academic venues, with a frequent appearance in publications like the Academy of Management Proceedings, where they have contributed 13 papers. Other notable venues include the Journal of Applied Psychology, Behavioral Science & Policy, Academy of Management Journal, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Significant recent papers by Chen and their collaborators include:

  • "Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success," 2021, Academy of Management Journal
  • "Power corrupts (or does it?): An examination of the boundary conditions of the antisocial effects of experienced power," 2020, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • "The Future of Motivation in and of Teams," 2023, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • "To be or not to be consistent? The role of friendship and group-targeted perspective in managers' allocation decisions," 2020, Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • "When new talent scores: The impact of human capital and the team socialization context on newcomer performance in professional sports teams," 2022, Journal of Applied Psychology

Chen frequently collaborates with several scholars, including Moran Lazar, Brent Goldfarb, Ella Miron-Spektor, Miriam Erez, and Rajshree Agarwal. Among these, Moran Lazar and Brent Goldfarb are the most frequent coauthors, with seven and six coauthored works respectively.

Best Publications

  • Validation of a New General Self-Efficacy Scale:

    Gilad Chen;Stanley M. Gully;Dov Eden

  • The two faces of transformational leadership: Empowerment and dependency.

    Ronit Kark;Boas Shamir;Gilad Chen

  • Individual Power Distance Orientation and Follower Reactions to Transformational Leaders: A Cross-Level, Cross-Cultural Examination

    Bradley L. Kirkman;Gilad Chen;Jiing-Lih Farh;Zhen Xiong Chen

  • A Multilevel Study of Leadership, Empowerment, and Performance in Teams

    Gilad Chen;Bradley L. Kirkman;Ruth Kanfer;Don Allen

  • The role of different levels of leadership in predicting self- and collective efficacy: evidence for discontinuity.

    Gilad Chen;Paul D. Bliese

  • THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM: CROSS‐LEVEL EFFECTS OF HIGH‐PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS ON EMPLOYEES’ ATTITUDES

    Riki Takeuchi;Gilad Chen;David P. Lepak

  • Examination of relationships among trait-like individual differences, state-like individual differences, and learning performance.

    Gilad Chen;Stanley M. Gully;Jon-Andrew Whiteman;Robert N. Kilcullen

  • General self-efficacy and self-esteem: toward theoretical and empirical distinction between correlated self-evaluations

    Gilad Chen;Stanley Morris Gully;Dov Eden

  • The Power of Momentum: A New Model of Dynamic Relationships between Job Satisfaction Change and Turnover Intentions

    Gilad Chen;Robert E. Ployhart;Helena Cooper Thomas;Neil Anderson

  • Toward a Systems Theory of Motivated Behavior in Work Teams

    Gilad Chen;Ruth Kanfer

  • Testing Interaction Effects in LISREL: Examination and Illustration of Available Procedures

    Jose M. Cortina;Gilad Chen;William P. Dunlap

  • A MULTILEVEL INTEGRATION OF PERSONALITY, CLIMATE, SELF-REGULATION, AND PERFORMANCE

    Craig Wallace;Gilad Chen

  • Understanding and estimating the power to detect cross-level interaction effects in multilevel modeling.

    John E. Mathieu;Herman Aguinis;Steven A. Culpepper;Gilad Chen

  • Motivating and demotivating forces in teams: Cross-level influences of empowering leadership and relationship conflict.

    Gilad Chen;Payal Nangia Sharma;Suzanne K. Edinger;Debra L. Shapiro

  • The Impact Of Expectations On Newcomer Performance In Teams As Mediated By Work Characteristics, Social Exchanges, And Empowerment

    Gilad Chen;Richard J. Klimoski

  • When Does Cross-Cultural Motivation Enhance Expatriate Effectiveness? A Multilevel Investigation of the Moderating Roles of Subsidiary Support and Cultural Distance

    Gilad Chen;Bradley L. Kirkman;Kwanghyun Kim;Crystal I. C. Farh

  • The Etiology of the Multilevel Paradigm in Management Research

    John E. Mathieu;Gilad Chen

  • Teams as innovative systems: multilevel motivational antecedents of innovation in R&D teams.

    Gilad Chen;Jiing Lih Farh;Elizabeth M. Campbell-Bush;Zhiming Wu

  • Training Undergraduates to Work in Organizational Teams

    Gilad Chen;Lisa M. Donahue;Richard J. Klimoski

  • The Roles of Self-Efficacy and Task Complexity in the Relationships Among Cognitive Ability, Conscientiousness, and Work-Related Performance: A Meta-Analytic Examination

    Gilad Chen;Wendy J. Casper;Jose M. Cortina

  • Work motivation : past, present, and future

    Ruth Kanfer;Gilad Chen;Robert D. Pritchard

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Mathieu
John E. Mathieu University of Connecticut
Ruth Kanfer
Ruth Kanfer Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul D. Bliese
Paul D. Bliese University of South Carolina
Jiing-Lih Farh
Jiing-Lih Farh China Europe International Business School
Stephen J. Zaccaro
Stephen J. Zaccaro George Mason University
Robert E. Ployhart
Robert E. Ployhart University of South Carolina
Miriam Erez
Miriam Erez Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Richard J. Klimoski
Richard J. Klimoski George Mason University
Steve W. J. Kozlowski
Steve W. J. Kozlowski University of South Florida
Debra L. Shapiro
Debra L. Shapiro University of Maryland, College Park

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