Relational inertia arising from formal roles and status hierarchies is endemic and
problematic in many organizations. This study examines how role-power expansion for …

Social hierarchies can prevent teams from hearing and using all of their members'
contributions. They are also ubiquitous and difficult to change, reinforced by conscious and …

Despite well-accepted understanding that relational dynamics characterized by respect,
openness, and connectedness are critical for healthy team functioning, we know little about …

Understanding organizational responses to institutional complexity has become a central
theme in institutional theory (Greenwood, Raynard, Kodeih, Micelotta, & Lounsbury, 2011) …

This paper reviews the growing body of work on network dynamics in organizational
research, focusing on a corpus of 187 articles—both “micro”(ie, interpersonal) and …

Five years ago The Leadership Quarterly published a special issue on the topic of
complexity to advance a new way of thinking about leadership. In shifting attention away …

Whereas extant theorizing on interorganizational relational dynamics has highlighted the
importance of between-partner differences, we shift attention to within-partner differences …

Despite the plethora of research on organizational change, we still have little understanding
of how actors' workplace relations influence change within their organizational environment …

Leveraging the social hierarchy literature, the present research offers a role-based account
of the antecedents of interpersonal conflict. Specifically, we suggest that the negative …

This article develops a new approach to studying leadership and collective agency. It is
inspired by recent research in social biology and complex social network modeling in the …