![]() In 2007, the Erasmus Centre for Leadership Studies was founded as a means of furthering leadership research in collaboration with a variety of organisations as well as experimental research in carefully controlled laboratory environments. Research within the theme also includes topics such as ethical leadership, leadership and emotions, visionary leadership, and servant leadership. The OB theme’s leadership research has contributed significantly to a variety of areas including the championing of a social identity theory of leadership, which emphasises the leader’s roles in shaping and connecting with a shared team or organisational identity. ![]() This research theme incorporates a variety of issues and research methodologies, with the primary emphasis being on quantitative research in two areas: leadership and team performance. This includes the largest EU grant ever received by Erasmus University Rotterdam for the COMPOSITE, a cross-national research project on organisational change in the police. The OB research theme at ERIM has a successful track record in securing substantial amounts of grant money from both Dutch funding agencies (for example, NWO) and international sources. Additional signs of external recognition and academic leadership include a strong presence in editorial positions in and editorial board memberships of leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal. Researchers within the OB theme benefit from collaborations with other top research institute around the world as well as with leading industry players. To this end, the ERIM OB research theme focuses on the micro levels of analysis in management and organisation – the behaviour of individuals and work groups. Excellence in researchĮRIM’s approach to research is that it must be undertaken with the express purpose of developing new knowledge that expands the boundaries of management science while at the same time offering meaningful value to practitioners and their organisations. Recognising the many groundbreaking contributions ERIM has made in the field of Organisational Behaviour, research by the programme’s faculty members has been published in many leading management science journals such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science. Understanding this, key issues underpinning the research activities of the Organisational Behaviour (OB) theme of ERIM’s Organisation programme relate to the nature of work itself and how best it can be organised how organisations and managers can motivate and develop their employees, achieve synergy among teams, and realise the full potential of their workforce for learning, creativity and innovation. All rights reserved.The effective management of human resources is acknowledged as a critical factor in building sustainable competitive advantage within organisations. In addition, we discuss a number of expansions of research on social comparison as they are currently occurring, and we outline what we see as likely and desirable future directions, including an expansion of areas, methods, and conceptualizations, as well as a stronger focus on cognitive, neuroscientific, and evolutionary aspects of social comparison. These are, in chronological order: (1) classic social comparison theory, (2) fear-affiliation theory, (3) downward comparison theory, (4) social comparison as social cognition, and (5) individual differences in social comparison. All rights reserved.ĪB - The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades. ![]() ![]() N2 - The past and current states of research on social comparison are reviewed with regard to a series of major theoretical developments that have occurred in the past 5 decades. T2 - The end of a theory and the emergence of a field ![]()
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