Cortina, J., Kadolkar, I. K., Volk, S., & Thöni, C. (2026). The man of the (second) moment: How greater male variability affects the gender composition and productivity of the workforce. Journal of Applied Psychology. 

Volk, S. (2026). Tapping into your team’s circadian rhythms: You and your employees all have different internal clocks. Enhance performance by planning around them. Harvard Business Review, May–June, 127-131.

Volk, S., Billsberry, J., & Ambrosini, V. (2026). Rise and shine: A circadian perspective on learning and wellbeing in management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 25(1), 97-115. 

Thöni, C., & Volk, S. (2025). Gender differences in preferences. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics (pp. 227-230). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Volk, S., Waldman, D., & Barnes, C. (2023).  A circadian theory of paradoxical leadership. Academy of Management Review, 48(4), 1-32. 

Volk, S., Lowe, K., & Barnes, C. (2023). Circadian leadership: A review and integration of chronobiology and leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(2), 180-201. 

Yang, J., Wen, L., Volk, S., & Lu, J. (2022). Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap. Journal of World Business, 57(6), 101367. 

Thöni, C., & Volk, S. (2021).  Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(23), e2026112118. 

Thöni, C., Volk, S., & Cortina, J. (2021). Greater male variability in cooperation: Meta-analytic evidence for an evolutionary perspective. Psychological Science, 32(1), 50–63. 

Volk, S., Nguyen, H., & Thöni, C. (2019). Punishment under threat: The role of personality in costly punishment. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 47-55.  

Thöni, C., & Volk, S. (2018). Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement. Economics Letters, 171, 37-40.  

Volk, S., Pearsall, M.J., Christian, M.S., & Becker, W.J. (2017). Chronotype diversity in teams: Toward a theory of team energetic asynchrony. Academy of Management Review, 42(4), 683-702. 

Ward, M.K., Volk, S., & Becker, W.J. (2015). An overview of organizational neuroscience. In D. A. Waldman and P. A. Balthazard (Eds.), Organizational Neuroscience (Monographs in Leadership and Management, Volume 7). London: Emerald, 17-50. 

Becker, W.J., Volk, S., & Ward, M.K. (2015). Leveraging neuroscience for smarter approaches to workplace intelligence. Human Resource Management Review, 25, 56-67. 

Volk, S., Köhler, T., & Pudelko, M. (2014). Brain drain: The cognitive neuroscience of foreign language processing in multinational corporations. Journal of International Business Studies, 45, 862-885. 

See also commentary on paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies:

How foreign language affects decisions: Rethinking the brain-drain model 

Volk, S., & Becker, W.J. (2014). How insights from neuroeconomics can inform organizational research: The case of prosocial organizational behavior. Schmalenbach Business Review, 5/14, 65-86. 

Volk, S. (2013). Diversity courses in management education: A game experimental approach to the assessment of course needs. International Journal of Management Education, 11, 163-173. 

Volk, S., & Köhler, T. (2012). Brains and games: Applying neuroeconomics to organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 15, 522-552. 

Volk, S., Thöni, C., & Ruigrok, W. (2012). Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81, 664-676.

Volk, S., Thöni, C., & Ruigrok, W. (2011). Personality, personal valuesa and cooperation preferences in public goods games: A longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 810-815. 

Volk, S., & Pudelko, M. (2010). Challenges and opportunities for Islamic retail banking in the European context: Lessons to be learnt from a British–German comparison. Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 15, 191-202.