Sim Sitkin

Leadership Styles: A Comprehensive Assessment and Way Forward

Academy of Management Annals · 2022 · 249 citations

Assessing the Control Literature: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior · 2020 · 53 citations

This review provides a comprehensive picture of the range of control influences in organizations. We begin by describing and labeling the various types of control mechanisms and control systems examined in the literature. We then identify several issues in the control literature that are currently compromising scholars’ capacities to develop a full, complete, and comprehensive knowledge base about control dynamics. Theorists have been constrained by frameworks that present important but relative…

Disentangling the Process and Content of Self-Awareness: A Review, Critical Assessment, and Synthesis

Academy of Management Annals · 2021 · 46 citations

Are self-aware leaders more effective? Are self-aware workers more productive and satisfied? Studies of self-awareness, which have been undertaken in a range of fields, have implications for a wide variety of topics in organizational behavior. Yet, this research has been scattered, resulting in gaps, siloed insights, a lack of clear and consistent conceptualization, and the confounding of causes and effects with self-awareness itself. We review the organizational behavior and psychology literatu…

Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk: The Case of Leadership Development in Business Schools

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies · 2022 · 36 citations

Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking evidence. Analyzing 60 interviews with academic di…

Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations

Journal of Management Studies · 2023-09-06 · 28 citations

Abstract Control and trust issues are at the heart of collaboration in and between organizations. In this introduction to the Special Issue (SI) on the control‐trust dynamics, we first propose an integrative framework to take stock of the main themes discussed in both the micro and macro literature. We then contextualize how the papers in this issue flesh out key mechanisms underlying the interplay between control and trust over time. The remainder of the introduction highlights directions for f…