Research

(Updated 8/28/25)

ACADEMIC Publications

Bednar, J., & Brown, J. A. (2024). 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.

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.

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.

PRACTITIONER Publications

Swain, J.E., Ordiway, B., Grizzle, C., & Brown, J.A. (forthcoming). Revisiting Humility as a Leadership Attribute in the Army. Military Review. 

Brown, J. A., Byrne, T., Gunsalus, C. K., & Burbules, N. C. (2024). How Humble Should I Be? Inside Higher Education.

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Brown, J. A., Gunsalus, C. K., Burbules, N. C., & Byrne, T. (2024). On Authenticity and Leadership in Academe. Inside Higher Ed.

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Brown, J. A., Bednar, J. S., Gunsalus, C. K., & Burbules, N. C. (2024). Dealing With the Ghosts of Leaders Past. Inside Higher Ed.

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Ryder, J. J., Gunsalus, C. K., Luckman, E. A., Brown, J. A., Burbules, N. C., & Briskin, J. (2024). Making the Most of Individual Development Plans. Inside Higher Ed.

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

Works Under Review / In Progress 

Under Review

Garrett, L. E., Fetzer, G., & Brown, J. A. (2nd R&R, Administrative Science Quarterly). Representing the Shield: A Dynamic View of Relationship Orientation in the NFL. 

Bednar, J., & Brown, J. A. (under review, Sloan Management Review). How past leaders leave “ghosts” which continue to influence current organizational members. 

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

In Progress

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J.E., Strachan, M. J., & Fetzer, G. (final preparation for submission, Academy of Management Journal). Becoming a “Humilitary”: the Role of Ambivalence in Embracing Leader Humility in the U.S. Army. 

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

Israelsen, T., Tsai, W., & Brown, J. A. (writing stage; target: Administrative Science Quarterly). Institutionalization as values abstraction: The evolving role of values in Marriott International. 

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

Brown, J. A., Ocasio, W., & Kraatz, M. S. (data collection stage; target TBD). Doctrine and purpose in the U.S. Army. 

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

Conference Presentations

Israelsen, T., Tsai, W., & Brown, J. A. (2025). Institutionalization as values abstraction: The evolving role of values in Marriott International. Academy of Management Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Brown, J. A., Archibold, E. E., Dobson, K. S. H., & Garrett, L. E. (2025). The Need for Authenticated Self-Awareness: Toward a Theory of Connective Authenticity. The Authenticity Conference, Berkeley, CA. 

Brown, J. A., Archibold, E. E., Dobson, K. S. H., & Garrett, L. E. (2024). The Need for Authenticated Self-Awareness: Toward a Theory of Connective Authenticity. Authenticity Group Symposium, Online. 

Brown, J. A., Owens, B. P., Swain, J. E., & Strachan, M. J. (2023). Can We Become a Humilitary? Envisioning and Expressing the Enactment of New Espoused Values by Change Recipients. Humility Incubator (held via Zoom). (Invited presenter)

Bailey, E., Dobson, K. S. H., Brown, J. A., Cha, S. E., Newman, G. E., Pillemer, J., (2023). Contextualizing the Self in the Workplace: Problems and Solutions for the Study of Authenticity. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA. (Invited panelist, panel discussion.)

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.