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What Choices Do Employees Have When Facing Destructive Leaders, and What Are the Odds of a Good Outcome for the Employees? A Systemic Perspective

The destructive leadership evolution model derives from the centuries-old Gresham’s Law, and it states that “bad” leaders drive out “good” leaders, but “good” leaders cannot drive out “bad” leaders when “bad” leaders are allowed to operate with impunity. Employees will therefore face a choice between becoming a collude...

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Makaia: the return of the co-founder

The learning outcomes are as follows: to understand the challenges and issues associated with management succession, with a thorough consideration of the interplay among governance structure, organizational inertia and management styles of the individuals involved in the leadership transition; to evaluate how well-...

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Open access Sep 2026

Agency Theory vs. Stewardship Theory: Key Differences, Contextual Boundaries, and an Integrated Governance Framework

For more than 40 years, corporate governance has been a field of research dominated by agency theory and stewardship theory, which have quite different views on the underlying nature of both human behavior and organizational dynamics. Stewardship theory builds on agency theory, which states that managers are self-inter...

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Platform Power and Worker Agency: A Socio-Technical Review of the Gig Economy

The platform-mediated gig economy constitutes 4.4% to 12.5% of the global workforce. Understanding how platform design shapes working conditions, and how workers develop strategies to navigate platform constraints, is crucial to addressing challenges in this rapidly evolving sector. Following PRISMA guidelines, we exam...

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Open access Aug 2026

Global strategy in a changing world: Why we need classic theories

In their Point article, Van Assche and Lindner argue that recent geopolitical developments require revisiting theoretical assumptions underlying global strategy research. We question both the scope of the empirical changes they describe and the implication that existing frameworks have become inadequate. Rising s...

L. Kano, Catherine Welch · 1 citation
Review Sep 2026

Beyond Good and Bad: Understanding the Contradictory Effects of Positive Leadership Behavior and Negative Leadership Behavior

Organizational scholarship has long focused on leadership behavior, largely assuming that “good” and “bad” leaders can be distinguished by distinct sets of behaviors that can be organized into constructs with an inherent positive or negative valence (e.g., transformational, ethical, abusive). This assumption has guided...

Hao-Ying Xu, Xing Wang, D. van Knippenberg · 1 citation

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