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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
83
Citations
70099
World Ranking
135
National Ranking
70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Robert C. Liden is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the broad field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management, and Applied Psychology.

Their work encompasses several main topics including Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Management and Organizational Studies, Organizational Learning and Leadership, Ethics in Business and Education, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, and Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation.

Robert C. Liden has contributed to a range of scholarly publications. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Unintended consequences of being proactive? Linking proactive personality to coworker envy, helping, and undermining, and the moderating role of prosocial motivation." (2020), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • "Does manager servant leadership lead to follower serving behaviors? It depends on follower self-interest." (2020), Journal of Applied Psychology
  • "Servant Leadership Influencing Store-Level Profit: The Mediating Effect of Employee Flourishing" (2020), Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Blessing or curse: The moderating role of political skill in the relationship between servant leadership, voice, and voice endorsement" (2021), Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • "The evolution of leadership: Past insights, present trends, and future directions" (2024), Journal of Business Research

Frequent publication venues for Robert C. Liden include the Academy of Management Proceedings with 10 publications, Journal of Organizational Behavior with 6, Journal of Applied Psychology with 5, Journal of Business Ethics with 3, and Journal of Management Studies with 2.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with multiple co-authors such as Sandy J. Wayne, Jeroen Stouten, Jingfeng Yin, Prajya Rakshit Vidyarthi, and Ying Wu.

Robert C. Liden has been recognized as a Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management, an award acknowledging their contributions within the field.

Best Publications

  • Perceived Organizational Support And Leader-Member Exchange: A Social Exchange Perspective

    Sandy J. Wayne;Lynn M. Shore;Robert C. Liden

  • A Social Capital Theory of Career Success

    Scott E. Seibert;Maria L. Kraimer;Robert C. Liden

  • Social exchange in organizations: Perceived organizational support, leader–member exchange, and employee reciprocity.

    Randall P. Settoon;Nathan Bennett;Robert C. Liden

  • Leader-Member Exchange Model of Leadership: A Critique and Further Development

    Richard M. Dienesch;Robert C. Liden

  • Multidimensionafity of Leader-Member Exchange: An Empirical Assessment through Scale Development

    Robert C. Liden;John M. Maslyn

  • Servant leadership: Development of a multidimensional measure and multi-level assessment ☆

    Robert C. Liden;Sandy J. Wayne;Hao Zhao;David J. Henderson

  • Social Networks and the Performance of Individuals and Groups

    Raymond T. Sparrowe;Robert C. Liden;Sandy J. Wayne;Maria L. Kraimer

  • Leader-member exchange theory: The past and potential for the future.

    Robert C. Liden;Raymond T. Sparrowe;Sandy J. Wayne

  • An examination of the mediating role of psychological empowerment on the relations between the job, interpersonal relationships, and work outcomes.

    Robert C. Liden;Sandy J. Wayne;Raymond T. Sparrowe

  • Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives

    Jessica E. Dinh;Robert G. Lord;William L. Gardner;Jeremy D. Meuser

  • A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents and Consequences of Leader-Member Exchange Integrating the Past With an Eye Toward the Future

    James H. Dulebohn;William H. Bommer;Robert C. Liden;Robyn L. Brouer

  • Generalizability of the vertical dyad linkage model of leadership.

    Robert C. Liden;George Graen

  • A longitudinal study on the early development of leader-member exchanges.

    Robert C. Liden;Sandy J. Wayne;Dean Stilwell

  • Servant leadership: A systematic review and call for future research.

    Nathan Eva;Mulyadi Robin;Sen Sendjaya;Dirk van Dierendonck

  • Process and Structure in Leader-Member Exchange

    Raymond T. Sparrowe;Robert C. Liden

  • Servant leadership and serving culture: Influence on individual and unit performance

    Robert C. Liden;Sandy J. Wayne;Chenwei Liao;Jeremy D. Meuser

  • Effects of impression management on performance ratings: A longitudinal study.

    Sandy J. Wayne;Robert C. Liden

  • Role of leadership in the employee withdrawal process.

    George B. Graen;Robert C. Liden;William Hoel

  • Antecedents of team potency and team effectiveness: an examination of goal and process clarity and servant leadership.

    Jia Hu;Robert C. Liden

  • Leader-member exchange, differentiation, and task interdependence: implications for individual and group performance

    Robert C. Liden;Berrin Erdogan;Sandy J. Wayne;Raymond T. Sparrowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandy J. Wayne
Sandy J. Wayne University of Illinois at Chicago
Berrin Erdogan
Berrin Erdogan Portland State University
Maria L. Kraimer
Maria L. Kraimer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Talya N. Bauer
Talya N. Bauer Portland State University
Terence R. Mitchell
Terence R. Mitchell University of Washington
Scott E. Seibert
Scott E. Seibert University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Gerald R. Ferris
Gerald R. Ferris Florida State University
Robert G. Lord
Robert G. Lord Durham University
Lynn M. Shore
Lynn M. Shore Colorado State University
William L. Gardner
William L. Gardner Texas Tech University

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