Patrick Flynn

About

Patrick Flynn, PhD, is the Matthew and Soogi Hong Fellow and an assistant professor of management in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. He joined the college from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, where he completed his doctorate degree in organizational behavior and human resources. His research focuses on dynamic individual and group-level processes, with particular emphasis on event-based adaptation and team citizenship behaviors. Flynn’s work has been published in reputable outlets such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Operations Management. His research has also been featured in various media outlets including CNBC, MSN, Wallethub, Spectrum News, and the Raleigh News & Observer. In addition to his research, he serves on the editorial board of Group & Organization Management. Flynn’s teaching includes courses on people analytics and management consulting practicum at the undergraduate level, as well as leadership consulting practicum at the MBA level.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Economics
• Sociology
• Applied psychology
• Operations management
• Econometrics
• Cognitive psychology

Selected publications

• Tracking the Process of Resilience: How Emotional Stability and Experience Influence Exhaustion and Commitment Trajectories

  Group & Organization Management · 2021 · 41 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  This study responds to calls to conceptualize resilience as a dynamic process by examining individual trajectories of emotional exhaustion and affective commitment over time in the face of ongoing role demands. In contrast to research conceptualizing resilience as a dispositional trait, we conceptualize resilience in terms of patterns of between-individual variation in response trajectories (dynamic resilience). In a longitudinal study spanning three months and 12 observational periods, we show…

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• Unit cohesion during deployment and post-deployment mental health: is cohesion an individual- or unit-level buffer for combat-exposed soldiers?

  Psychological Medicine · 2020 · 33 citations

  BACKGROUND: Unit cohesion may protect service member mental health by mitigating effects of combat exposure; however, questions remain about the origins of potential stress-buffering effects. We examined buffering effects associated with two forms of unit cohesion (peer-oriented horizontal cohesion and subordinate-leader vertical cohesion) defined as either individual-level or aggregated unit-level variables. METHODS: = 89), the significance of unit-level interactions was evaluated at a 90% conf…

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• To err is human: Exploratory <scp>multilevel</scp> analysis of supply chain delivery delays

  Journal of Operations Management · 2021 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  ABSTRACT We examine the impact of human errors by front‐line supply chain employees on delivery delays. We build on normal accident theory (NAT), a multilevel theory describing the relationship between a firm's latent conditions (systemic managerial, technology, and social factors) and human errors. Latent conditions can have the unintended consequence of intensifying the impact of a human error, thus, we hypothesize a moderating effect of latent conditions on the relationship between errors and…

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• From Intent to Impact: A Proactive Event Approach for Amplifying Sustainability Across Time

  Journal of Management · 2024-03-22 · 4 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  We extend event system theory (EST) to conceptualize proactive events and examine how event duration, timing, criticality, and disruption are related to two phases of change associated with an organizationally initiated event. Specifically, we explore the impact of a new sustainability monitoring system on energy consumption using longitudinal archival data from 87 manufacturing units of a Fortune 200 multinational firm. We use a variant of mixed-effects discontinuous growth modeling (DGM) to te…

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• When Does Entrepreneurs’ Impression Management Enhance Their Networking Performance? The Cross-Level Moderating Role of Collective Altruism

  Group & Organization Management · 2024-08-29 · 2 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  There is debate in the literature regarding when impression management motivates networking performance for self and others, and how well individuals perform tasks when the driving motivation is to look good. We take a novel approach to this quandary, integrate social exchange with sensemaking theories and research, and examine how networking group characteristics enable entrepreneurs to make sense of, and interpret, their collective environment and subsequently determine how they should behave…

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Frequent coauthors

• Kevin W. Bowyer

  University of Notre Dame

  17 shared

• Dawn L. Hershman

  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  16 shared

• Joseph M. Unger

  Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  16 shared

• Danika L. Lew

  Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  16 shared

• Gary V. Burton

  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport

  16 shared

• Anne F. Schott

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  16 shared

• Charles Kuzma

  FirstHealth of the Carolinas

  16 shared

• Carl W. Sharer

  Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  16 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Management

  North Carolina State University

  2019

• M.S., Business Administration

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  2013

• B.S., Business Administration

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  2011

Awards & honors

• Matthew and Soogi Hong Fellow

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