Sim B Sitkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 161592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sim B Sitkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sim B |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitkin |
| SIGNATURE | SITKIN S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7716-6154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Leadership Styles
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
The Routledge Companion to Trust
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Rosalind H. Searle, Ann-Marie I. Nienaber and Sim B. Sitkin; individual chapters, the contributors. Declining trust between citizens and the public sector has been high on the public agenda for quite a while now. Such declining trust and sometimes even increasing distrust has been related to issues such as the emergence of new political parties running on an anti-government sentiment, aggression of citizens …
Management Control Systems
A Critical Assessment of Charismatic—Transformational Leadership Research
There is a widely shared consensus that charismatic–transformational leadership is a particularly effective form of leadership. In a critical assessment of the state-of-the-science in this area of research, we question the validity of that conclusion. We identify four problems with theory and research in charismatic–transformational leadership. First, a clear conceptual definition of charismatic–transformational leadership is lacking. Current the…
Understanding Social Capital
This book showcases new innovative research in economics, politics, sociology, and management regarding the topic. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines present ground-breaking new research exploring the still-undiscovered value of social capital. The book employs a self-consciously multi-disciplinary approach to address two objectives: reaching out and reaching in. Through theoretical and empirical scholarship, the authors explore the m…
Promoting a more generative and sustainable organizational science
Trust in the Balance
This chapter refines and extends ideas about managerial task control and trust-building activities. We present a model of managerial action that outlines the general processes by which managers make both joint and independent decisions about the trust-building, and task control activities they undertake. In addition, we examine a variety of contextual factors that affect how managers combine and integrate these activities and describe three diffe…
Managerial Trust-Building Through the Use of Legitimating Formal and Informal Control Mechanisms
This article examines formal and informal decision criteria used by organizational decision-makers when making potentially controversial, legitimacy-relating decisions that could damage trust. Two experimental studies found consistent patterns of persistent use of formal controls and reduced use of informal controls under higher levels of perceived threat to trust. Institutional theory is consistent with the proposition that increased use of legi…
Big‐B versus Big‐O
This paper is an empirically grounded essay about the current state of organizational behavior (OB) research and productive future directions. We report the results of a survey of OB scholars about the current importance of various research topics and their importance in an ideal world. We compare the survey responses with an archival analysis of papers published in leading OB journals over a 10‐year period. We suggest that many of the topics tha…
Not So Different After All
The article discusses trust theory, multidisciplinary research, and trust between organizations. The analysis of trust is based on four questions: whether scholars can agree on the meaning of trust; if researchers are viewing trust statistically; if the status of trust--cause, effect, or interaction--changes across disciplines; and whether the levels of analysis also change. The "bandwidth" of trust--where trust and distrust are differentiated--c…
The Road to Hell
Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust
Organizations frequently adopt formal rules, contracts, or other legalistic mechanisms when interpersonal trust is lacking. But recent research has shown such legalistic “remedies” for trust-related problems to be ineffective in restoring trust. To explain this apparent ineffectiveness, this paper outlines a theory that distinguishes two dimensions of trust—task-specific reliability and value congruence—and shows how legalistic mechanisms respond…
Social Accounts in Conflict Situations
Considerable attention has been given to different behavioral strategies of conflict management (e.g., avoidance, compromise, collaboration). However, conflict theory and research has overlooked a simple, but effective strategy for managing conflict: the use of social accounts or explanations. In this paper, we review the literature on the use of social accounts in conflict situations and find it supports the argument that social accounts can be …
Prescriptions for justice
A Dual-Capacity Model of Communication Media Choice in Organizations
Most previous research concerning communication media choke in organizations has stressed the capacity of media to convey data. More recently, scholars have examined the capacity of media to convey and manifest meaning. Rarely have both functions been considered concurrently. In this artcle, a model is proposed that not only permits the simultaneous examination of these two functions but reflects that media use is influenced by characteristics of…
Dangerous Diagnostics
A Dual-Capacity Model of Communication Media Choice in Organizations
Most previous research concerning communication media choke in organizations has stressed the capacity of media to convey data. More recently, scholars have examined the capacity of media to convey and manifest meaning. Rarely have both functions been considered concurrently. In this artcle, a model is proposed that not only permits the simultaneous examination of these two functions but reflects that media use is influenced by characteristics of…
Social Accounts in Conflict Situations
Considerable attention has been given to different behavioral strategies of conflict management (e.g., avoidance, compromise, collaboration). However, conflict theory and research has overlooked a simple, but effective strategy for managing conflict: the use of social accounts or explanations. In this paper, we review the literature on the use of social accounts in conflict situations and find it supports the argument that social accounts can be …
Big‐B versus Big‐O
This paper is an empirically grounded essay about the current state of organizational behavior (OB) research and productive future directions. We report the results of a survey of OB scholars about the current importance of various research topics and their importance in an ideal world. We compare the survey responses with an archival analysis of papers published in leading OB journals over a 10‐year period. We suggest that many of the topics tha…
The Routledge Companion to Trust
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Rosalind H. Searle, Ann-Marie I. Nienaber and Sim B. Sitkin; individual chapters, the contributors. Declining trust between citizens and the public sector has been high on the public agenda for quite a while now. Such declining trust and sometimes even increasing distrust has been related to issues such as the emergence of new political parties running on an anti-government sentiment, aggression of citizens …
Managerial Trust-Building Through the Use of Legitimating Formal and Informal Control Mechanisms
This article examines formal and informal decision criteria used by organizational decision-makers when making potentially controversial, legitimacy-relating decisions that could damage trust. Two experimental studies found consistent patterns of persistent use of formal controls and reduced use of informal controls under higher levels of perceived threat to trust. Institutional theory is consistent with the proposition that increased use of legi…
Promoting a more generative and sustainable organizational science
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
Prescriptions for justice
Dangerous Diagnostics
A Dual-Capacity Model of Communication Media Choice in Organizations
Most previous research concerning communication media choke in organizations has stressed the capacity of media to convey data. More recently, scholars have examined the capacity of media to convey and manifest meaning. Rarely have both functions been considered concurrently. In this artcle, a model is proposed that not only permits the simultaneous examination of these two functions but reflects that media use is influenced by characteristics of…
Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust
Organizations frequently adopt formal rules, contracts, or other legalistic mechanisms when interpersonal trust is lacking. But recent research has shown such legalistic “remedies” for trust-related problems to be ineffective in restoring trust. To explain this apparent ineffectiveness, this paper outlines a theory that distinguishes two dimensions of trust—task-specific reliability and value congruence—and shows how legalistic mechanisms respond…
Social Accounts in Conflict Situations
Considerable attention has been given to different behavioral strategies of conflict management (e.g., avoidance, compromise, collaboration). However, conflict theory and research has overlooked a simple, but effective strategy for managing conflict: the use of social accounts or explanations. In this paper, we review the literature on the use of social accounts in conflict situations and find it supports the argument that social accounts can be …
Prescriptions for justice
The Road to Hell
Not So Different After All
The article discusses trust theory, multidisciplinary research, and trust between organizations. The analysis of trust is based on four questions: whether scholars can agree on the meaning of trust; if researchers are viewing trust statistically; if the status of trust--cause, effect, or interaction--changes across disciplines; and whether the levels of analysis also change. The "bandwidth" of trust--where trust and distrust are differentiated--c…
Big‐B versus Big‐O
This paper is an empirically grounded essay about the current state of organizational behavior (OB) research and productive future directions. We report the results of a survey of OB scholars about the current importance of various research topics and their importance in an ideal world. We compare the survey responses with an archival analysis of papers published in leading OB journals over a 10‐year period. We suggest that many of the topics tha…
Managerial Trust-Building Through the Use of Legitimating Formal and Informal Control Mechanisms
This article examines formal and informal decision criteria used by organizational decision-makers when making potentially controversial, legitimacy-relating decisions that could damage trust. Two experimental studies found consistent patterns of persistent use of formal controls and reduced use of informal controls under higher levels of perceived threat to trust. Institutional theory is consistent with the proposition that increased use of legi…
Trust in the Balance
This chapter refines and extends ideas about managerial task control and trust-building activities. We present a model of managerial action that outlines the general processes by which managers make both joint and independent decisions about the trust-building, and task control activities they undertake. In addition, we examine a variety of contextual factors that affect how managers combine and integrate these activities and describe three diffe…
Promoting a more generative and sustainable organizational science
Understanding Social Capital
This book showcases new innovative research in economics, politics, sociology, and management regarding the topic. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines present ground-breaking new research exploring the still-undiscovered value of social capital. The book employs a self-consciously multi-disciplinary approach to address two objectives: reaching out and reaching in. Through theoretical and empirical scholarship, the authors explore the m…
Management Control Systems
A Critical Assessment of Charismatic—Transformational Leadership Research
There is a widely shared consensus that charismatic–transformational leadership is a particularly effective form of leadership. In a critical assessment of the state-of-the-science in this area of research, we question the validity of that conclusion. We identify four problems with theory and research in charismatic–transformational leadership. First, a clear conceptual definition of charismatic–transformational leadership is lacking. Current the…
The Routledge Companion to Trust
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Rosalind H. Searle, Ann-Marie I. Nienaber and Sim B. Sitkin; individual chapters, the contributors. Declining trust between citizens and the public sector has been high on the public agenda for quite a while now. Such declining trust and sometimes even increasing distrust has been related to issues such as the emergence of new political parties running on an anti-government sentiment, aggression of citizens …
Walking Our Evidence-Based Talk
Academics have lamented that practitioners do not always adopt scientific evidence in practice, yet while academics preach evidence-based management (EBM), they do not always practice it. This paper extends prior literature on difficulties to engage in EBM with insights from behavioral integrity (i.e., the study of what makes individuals and collectives walk their talk). We focus on leader development, widely used but often critiqued for lacking …
Leadership Styles
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Management (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)