Published Articles

The following published articles are available for download below:

Ashford, S. J., Wellman, N., & Sweeten, J. R. (Online first). Leadership should not be a luxury good: Scaling leader development for the forgotten majority. Academy of Management Learning & Education. 

Hedden, L. N., Schinoff, B. S., Wellman, N., & Blanchard, R. (2026). Tight, loose, or denied holding: How interpersonal holding shapes innovators’ responses to innovation obstacles. Organization Science, 37(2), 616-637. 

Dorobantu, S., Gruber, M., Ravasi, D., & Wellman, N. (2024). The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A tool for conducting and reporting empirical research. Academy of Management Journal, 67(5), 1163-1174. 

Wellman, N., Tröster, C., Grimes, M., Roberson, Q., Rink, F., & Gruber, M. (2023). Publishing multimethod research in AMJ: A review and best-practice recommendations. Academy of Management Journal, 66(4), 1007-1015. 

Bartels, A. L., & Wellman, N. (2023). Is it just me or am I the people's choice? The stress and performance implications of (in)congruence between self- and other-identification as a leader or follower. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(10), 1680-1698. 

Wellman, N., Ashford, S. J., Sanchez-Burks, J., & DeRue, D. S. (2022). Leading when the boss is present: How leadership structure schemas affect leadership behavior. Journal of Leadership and Organization Studies, 29(3), 249-269. 

Wald, D. M., Johnston, E. W., Wellman, N., & Harlow, J. (2021). How does personalization in news stories influence intentions to help with drought? Assessing the influence of state empathy and its antecedents. Frontiers in Communication, 5(111). 

Cialdini, R., Li, Y. J., Samper, A., & Wellman, N. (2021). How bad apples promote bad barrels: Unethical leader behavior and the selective attrition effect. Journal of Business Ethics, 168(4), 861-880. 

Baer, M. D., Frank, E. L., Matta, F. K., Luciano, M. M., & Wellman, N. (2021). Under trusted, over trusted, or "just right"? The fairness of (in)congruence between trust wanted and trust received. Academy of Management Journal, 64(1), 180-206. 

Wellman, N., Applegate, J. M., *Harlow, J., & Johnston, E. W. (2020). Beyond the pyramid: Alternative formal hierarchical structures and team performance. Academy of Management Journal, 63(4), 997-1027. 

Finalist for the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division’s Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior award

Newton, D., LePine, J. A., Kim, J. K., Wellman, N., & Bush, J. T. (2020). Taking engagement to task: The nature and functioning of engagement across task transitions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(1), 1-18. 

Wellman, N., Newton, D. W., Wang, D., Wei, W., Waldman, D. A., & LePine, J. A. (2019). Meeting the need or falling in line? The effect of laissez-faire formal leaders on informal leadership. Personnel Psychology, 72, 337-359.

Ashford, S. J., Wellman, N., Sully deLuque, M., DeStobbeleir, K. E., & Woolan, M. (2018). Two roads to effectiveness: CEO feedback seeking, vision articulation, and firm performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39, 82-95. 

Ong, M., Mayer, D. M., Tost, L. P., & Wellman, N. (2018). When corporate social responsibility motivates employee citizenship behavior: The sensitizing role of task significance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 44-59. 

Wellman, N. (2017). Authority or community? A relational models theory of group-level leadership emergence. Academy of Management Review, 42, 596-617. 

Huang, G.-h., Wellman, N., Ashford, S. J., Lee, C., & Wang, L. (2017). Deviance and exit: The organizational costs of job insecurity and moral disengagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 26-42. 

Wellman, N., Mayer, D. M., Ong, M., & DeRue, D. S. (2016). When are do-gooders treated badly? Legitimate power, role expectations, and reactions to moral objection in organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 793-814. 

Finalist for the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division’s Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior award

Wellman, N., & Spreitzer, G. M. (2011). Crafting scholarly life: Strategies for creating meaning in academic careers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 927-931. 

DeRue, D. S., Nahrgang, J. D., Wellman, N., & Humphrey, S. E. (2011). Trait and behavioral theories of leadership: An integration and meta-analytic test of their relative validity. Personnel Psychology, 64, 7-52. 

DeRue, D. S., & Wellman, N. (2009). Developing leaders via experience: The role of developmental challenge, learning orientation, and feedback availability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 859-875.