Research

(Updated 8/3/23)

Publications

Bednar, J., & Brown, J. A. (2023). Organizational Ghosts: How Imagined Interactions Enable Leaders To Influence Organizational Members After Organizational Departure. Academy of Management Journal. 

Qin, X., Liu, X., Brown, J. A., Zheng, X., & Owens, B. P. (2021). Humility Harmonized? Exploring Whether and How Leader and Employee Humility (In) Congruence Influences Employee Citizenship and Deviance Behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-19.

Michaelson, C., Lepisto, D. A., Pratt, M.G., Hedden, L., & Brown, J.A. (2020). Why corporate purpose statements often miss their mark. strategy+ business. 

Mao, J., Chiu, C. Y., Owens, B. P., Brown, J. A., & Liao, J. (2019). Growing followers: Exploring the effects of leader humility on follower self‐expansion, self‐efficacy, and performance. Journal of Management Studies, 56(2), 343-371.

Works Under Review / In Progress 

Under Review

Tang, P. M., Brown, J. A., Zhang, J., Owens, B. P., Lee, R., & Reynders, P. (1st R&R, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes). Admirable, Irritating, or Both? Observed Authenticity Elicits Mixed Emotional and Behavioral Reactions in Third Parties. 

Sawyer, K. B., Clair, J.A., Thoroughgood, C. N., Brown, J. A., & Gabriel, K. (initial review, Organization Science). Leader Inclusivity through the Lens of Marginalized Employees: Pathways to Combat Systemic Inequities. 

Bennion, C., Tang, P. M., Vogel, R. M., Brown, J. A., Zhang, J. (initial review, Personnel Psychology) Whose Fault? Understanding The Impacts of Observed Robot Failure on Third-party Employees via Attribution Theory

Yang, S., Tang, P. M., Brown, J. A., Zhang, J., & Feng, Z. (initial review, Personnel Psychology). From Felt Authenticity to Being Creative: Disentangling the Mixed Effects of Felt Authenticity on Employee Creativity. 

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (initial review, Administrative Science Quarterly). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. 

In Progress

Tang, P. M., Brown, J. A., Lin, S., Matta, F. K., & Zhang, L. (revising for resubmission to Organization Science). You’re always on my mind: Employee-Robot Interactions Impact Work Safety Behavior through Rumination and Reflexivity. 

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J.E., & Strachan, M. J.  (revising for resubmission to Academy of Management Journal). Becoming a “Humilitary” in an Ideological Battleground: Perpetuating Values Gaps by Espousing New Values. 

Brown, J. A., Garrett, L. E., & Dobson, K. S. H. (writing stage; target: Academy of Management Review). The Content, Process, and Purpose of Authenticity: Toward a Theory of Connective Authenticity.  

Brown, J. A. (writing stage; target: Administrative Science Quarterly). On Rules, Values, and the True Self: The Organizational Prevention and Permission of Authenticity in Highly Regulated Environments.

Other Publications

Braithwaite, S. R., Givens, A., Brown, J. A., & Fincham, F. (2015). Is pornography consumption associated with condom use and intoxication during hookups? Culture, health & sexuality, 17(10), 1155-1173.

Conference Presentations

Brown, J. A., Hewlin, P. F., Bailey, E., Matz, S., Cha., S. E., Roberts, L. M., Leroy, H., Heese, C., Vongswasdi, P. Hoever, I. J., Schaller, S. C., Dobson, K. S. H., Pamphile, V. D., Thoroughgood, C. N., & Sawyer, K. B. (2022). Being Real By Myself? The Dynamic Relationality of Authenticity. Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, WA. 

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2022). Can We Become a Humilitary? Perpetuating Values Gaps Despite New Value Espousal. Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.  

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2022). Can We Become a Humilitary? Perpetuating Values Gaps Despite New Value Espousal. Work, Identity, & Meaning (WIM) Conference, Boston College.  

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2022). Can We Become a Humilitary? Perpetuating Values Gaps Despite New Value Espousal. Work, Identity, & Meaning (WIM) Conference, Boston, MA.  

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2022). Can We Become a Humilitary? Perpetuating Values Gaps Despite New Value Espousal. East Coast Doctoral Consortium, Hosted by NYU (Zoom).  

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2022). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. Work, Identity, & Meaning (WIM) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. (Follow-up presentation)

Brown, J. A. (2021). More Me, Through Thee: Toward a Theory of Connective Authenticity. Authenticity Workgroup, Online Conference.  

Brown, J. A. (2021). The Humilitary? Structural-Interpretive Tensions of Espoused Values Undermine Organizational Change Initiatives. Idea Incubator (Pandemic). 

Brown, J. A. (2021). More Me, Through Thee: Toward a Theory of Connective Authenticity. Positive Relationships at Work Conference, Digital Conference (Pandemic). 

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2021). Becoming a “Humilitary” in an Ideological Battleground: Mechanisms of Cyclicality in Addressing Organizational Values Gaps. Part of the symposium, “Bringing Leading Back in Leadership: Behavioral Approaches to Leadership”. Academy of Management Conference (Pandemic).   

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2020). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. Academy of Management Conference, Digital Conference (Pandemic).  

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2020). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. Work, Identity, & Meaning (WIM) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.  

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2020). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. European Association for Sports Management Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Bednar, J. S., & Brown, J. A. (2019). Organizational Ghosts: The Enduring Influence of Departed Organizational Members. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2019). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. Positive Organizational Scholarship Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. 

Brown, J.A. (2019). Failing with Purpose. The Imagine Summit, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

Bednar, J. S., & Brown, J. A. (2018). Organizational Ghosts: The preservation and function of organizational legacies. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.

Bednar, J. S., & Brown, J. A. (2018). Organizational Ghosts: The preservation and function of organizational legacies. Western Academy of Management, Salt Lake City, UT.

Brown, J. A. (2014). Negative Workplace Competition. FHSS Mary Lou Fulton Conference, Provo, UT.