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    MANY ROADS TO SUCCESS: BROADENING OUR VIEWS OF ACADEMIC CAREER PATHS AND ADVICE
    ( 2024)
    Beth Livingston
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    A. K. Ward
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    Allison S. Gabriel
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    Joanna T. Campbell
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    Emily Block
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    Kimberly French
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    Rachel Frieder
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    Annika Hillebrandt
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    Jia (Jasmine) Hu
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    Kristen P. Jones
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    Nina M. Junker
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    Ashley Mandeville
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    Sarah Otner
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    Amanda S. Patel
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    Samantha Paustian-underdahl
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    Manuela Priesemuth
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    Kristen M. Shockley
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    Mindy Shoss
    Advice is often given to junior scholars in the field of organization science to ostensibly facilitate their career success. In this commentary, we discuss insights from 19 elite scholars (i.e., Fellows and top journal editors) about the advice they received—and often, did not follow—throughout their careers. We highlight some of the pitfalls from the current, all-too-common and often singular advice given to junior scholars while also adding necessary nuance to the requirements to achieve success in our field. We conclude with advice on how to give better advice, thereby more equitably encouraging a new generation of increasingly diverse researchers and future professors.
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    Women in academic publishing: Descriptive trends from authors to editors across 33 years of management science
    ( 2024)
    Brooke Gazdag
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    Cecile Emery
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    Sebastian Andreas Tideman
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    Traditionally, leadership scholars often study snapshots of leaders in organizations. However, academic publishing offers a unique, more controlled context to study leadership with implications for leadership scholars and scholarship. Hence, we present a descriptive overview of women’s representation across 33 years in 11 top management journals across levels of leaders in academic publishing (i.e., editors, associate editors, and editorial board members) and authors. To do so, we curated an archival dataset tracking women’s representation over time and across these four levels (i.e., 21,510 authors and 4,173 leaders) with 51,360 data entries for the authors and 320,545 for the leaders. Overall, women’s representation increased over time, which was explained by simple time trend effects. Only 32 of 135 editors were women (i.e., 23.7 %), and the share of women associate editors showed particularly drastic fluctuations. We did not observe a “leaky pipeline” except from the associate editor to editor step, as well as notable fluctuations—particularly after new editor appointments—and between journals. We discuss the influential roles editors and publishers have on women’s representation in academic publishing and science more broadly as well as implications for future research and policy.
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    Friend or fiend? Disentangling upward humor's (De)stabilizing effects on hierarchies
    ( 2023-10) ;
    Niels Van Quaquebeke
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    Petra Schmid
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    Brad Bitterly
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    Maurice Schweitzer
    Humor research in organizations focuses on leaders' humor, but we know far less about followers' humor. Here, we review and synthesize the scattered work on this "upward humor," offering a novel framing of it as a strategy for followers to deal with hierarchies. We propose a continuum of upward humor from stabilizing (i.e., a friend who uses upward humor to reinforce hierarchies, make hierarchies more bearable or stable) to destabilizing (i.e., a fiend who uses upward humor to question or reshape existing hierarchies) depending on perceived intent (i.e., from benevolent to malicious, respectively) and outline key factors that shape these interpretations. We close with novel questions and methods for future research such as power plays, multi-modal data, and human-robot interactions.
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    A playful path to more professional equity? Networking across diversity via sport
    Leaders develop via all domains of their lives. Yet, leaders’ sports involvement has been largely overlooked despite its theoretical and practical relevance, particularly for social development. Moreover, the limited research on the downstream social consequences of leaders’ sports involvement reveals different effects for men and women leaders—even opposing effects for the latter. Thus, we integrate social cognitive theory from developmental psychology to make sense of these contradictory findings. We theorize that sports contexts facilitate women’s networking with higher-status (male) leaders through its playfulness (i.e., leisurely, spontaneous, and socially interactive). An archival study of 644 leaders’ Twitter/X posts shows that sports generate more engagement—especially men interacting with women leaders’ sports posts (Study 1). A qualitative study with 58 leaders suggests sports’ playfulness facilitates these interactions as well as networking, results that we also quantitatively validated using ChatGPT (Study 2). Two recall experiments (Ntotal = 1,076) showed women leaders’ networking in sports (vs. traditional) contexts was more playful, and more playful sports contexts facilitated women (vs. men) leaders’ networking across gender and status differences (Pilot Study, Study 3). Our results show that more playful sports contexts facilitate women leaders’ successful networking across gender and status diversity—an innovation helping to level the playing field of gendered social capital development and future leadership inequalities in organizations. These results advance our understanding of conventional ways of networking as not always strategic and planned while also adding to diversity research by showing that sports—often framed as exclusionary—can also be inclusive.