Category Archives: Featured Research

Taylor, S. G., Folger, R., Vadera, A. K., Griffith, M. D.*, and Letwin, C. R*. (in press, 2019). Does having a bad boss make you more likely to be one yourself? Harvard Business Review.

Posted by R. David McLean (Georgetown University), Christo A. Pirinsky (University of Central Florida), and Mengxin Zhao (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), on Monday, November 19, 2018, to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Posted Nov. 15, 2018   ORLANDO, Fla. – Could a horrible boss make you a better leader? A new University of Central Florida study suggests abuse and mistreatment by those at the top of an organization do not necessarily lead to continued abusive behavior by lower-level leaders. When offered leadership opportunities, prior victims of workplace […]

Following an evaluation of 16,289 authors, the Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) ranked UCF Department of Management Chair Ron Piccolo, Ph.D., among the top 100 most influential authors in organizational behavior. The AMLE study, authored by Dr. Herman Aguinis and colleagues, measured scholarly impact in the fields of organizational behavior (OB), human resource […]

ORLANDO, Fla – With annual investments exceeding $34 billion, crowdfunded projects are expected to soon overtake venture capital as the top provider of startup funding. Some argue the market is saturated with campaigns on websites like Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo, but there are still methods to achieve success in the crowdfunding arena. According to UCF […]