John H. Humphreys’s research while affiliated with Texas A&M University – Commerce and other places

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Publications (66)


ANTi-microhistory of social innovation: humanistic education at Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment
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December 2023

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Journal of Management History

Foster B. Roberts

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Milorad M. Novicevic

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John H. Humphreys

Purpose The purpose of this study is to present ANTi-microhistory of social innovation in education within Robert Owen’s communal experiment at New Harmony, Indiana. The authors zoom out in the historical context of social innovation before zooming into the New Harmony case. Design/methodology/approach The authors used ANTi-microhistory approach to unpack the controversy around social innovation using the five-step procedure recently proposed by Mills et al. (2022), a version of the five-step procedure originally proposed by Tureta et al. (2021). Findings The authors found that the educational leaders of the New Harmony community preceded proponents of innovation, such as Drucker (1957) and Fairweather (1967), who viewed education as a form of social innovation. Originality/value The authors contribute to the history of social innovation in education by exploring the New Harmony community’s education society to uncover the enactment of sustainable social innovation and the origin story of humanistic management education.




Enabling leadership: Whitney Young, Jr as dramaturgical director of the US civil rights movement

September 2020

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54 Reads

Journal of Management History

Purpose Uhl-Bien and Arena (2018) presented a persuasive argument for recognizing the concept of enabling leadership as a critical form of leadership for adaptive organizations. This study aims to narratively explore the concept of enabling leadership in the context of social complexity. Design/methodology/approach To explore how leaders enable adaptive processes, Uhl-Bien and Arena (2018) called for future research using in-depth case studies of social actors centered on emergence in complex environments. In this in-depth case study, the authors pursue theory elaboration by using a form of analytically structured history process to analyze primary and secondary sources. Findings During archival research of Whitney Young, Jr’s largely overlooked and misunderstood leadership in the historic social drama of the 1960s US civil rights movement, the authors discovered compelling evidence to support and extend the theoretical arguments advanced by Uhl-Bien and Arena (2018). Research limitations/implications The reflexivity associated with interpretive case approaches confronts the issue of subjectivism. The authors ask readers to judge the credibility of their arguments accordingly. Originality/value Using a relational leadership-as-practice lens, the authors interpret the dramaturgical performance Whitney Young, Jr directed to facilitate coherent emancipatory dialogue, affect the social construction of power relations and enable the adaptive space needed for social transformation to emerge.


Fig. 1. Collective leadership facilitating Moral Disengagement to Justify Unethical Behaviour.
Propensity to Morally Disengage: The Malevolent Leader Dyad of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick
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August 2020

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1 Citation

Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations

Scholars have begun calling for broader conceptualisations of moral disengagement processes that reflect the interaction of dispositional and situational antecedents to a predilection to morally disengage. The authors argue that collective leadership may be one such contingent antecedent. While researching leaders from the Gilded Age of American business history, the authors encountered a compelling historical case that facilitates theory elaboration within these intersecting domains. Interpreting evidence from the embittered leader dyad of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, the authors show how leader egoism can permeate moral identity to promote symbolic moral self-regard and moral licensing, which augment a propensity to morally disengage. The authors use insights developed from our analysis to illustrate a process conceptualisa-tion that reflects a dispositional and situational interaction as a precursor to moral disengagement and explains how collective leadership can function as a moral disengagement trigger/tool to reduce cognitive dissonance and support the cognitive, behavioural, and rhetorical processes utilised to justify unethical behaviour.

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An Integrated Framework of Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Demoralized Transition Economies

January 2020

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48 Reads

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2 Citations

Journal of East European Management Studies

In the extant literature, transition economies are sporadically addressed under the moniker of emerging economies and often only through calls for more contextualized research. Moreover, not all transition economies are emerging, as attempts at rapid transformation have resulted in economic deterioration as well. Yet, we lack models that approach the coordination of market and nonmarket strategies in contexts experiencing ongoing economic malaise. Accordingly, we examined the institutional and market strategies of Frikom, a regional ice cream producer profiting in the demoralized transition economy of Serbia, to identify antecedents to socio-cultural demoralization, elaborate a reconstructed view of nonmarket strategy in a demoralized transition economy, and conceptualize an integrated alignment model for firms competing in demoralized transitional economic environments.


The historic emergence of intersectional leadership: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke

August 2019

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14 Citations

Leadership

Maggie Lena Walker arose from humble beginnings as the daughter of an ex-slave to become a prominent banker, entrepreneur, and community leader in the American state of Virginia in the early 1900s. She was the first African American woman in the United States to establish and lead a bank. In addition, Walker played a principal leadership role in a major African American mutual aid social service organization: the Independent Order of St. Luke. In this article, we investigate the historic emergence of intersectional leadership by exploring Walker’s leader identity development as Grand Secretary-Treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke. The method that we apply to the Walker case is intersectional microhistory, which is the study of unique social actors and the intersections of their gender, race, and other social categories as they change over time. We use our intersectional microhistory approach to unpack phenomenon of emerging intersectional leadership, offering deeper insights about the oppressive and multi-layered barriers that Maggie Walker surmounted as a black woman in order to effectively function as an acknowledged leader of the Independent Order of St. Luke.




Citations (47)


... For example,Cooke (2003) has persuasively argued for more research on the relationship between management and slavery.Godfrey, Hassard, O'Connor, Rowlinson, and Ruef (2016) took note of this call and proposed an agenda for examining slavery, its role in colonial policies, and the consequences of those practices for current cases of modern slavery.In addition, we suggest that MOS scholars focus on other populations that were affected by the development of colonial activities and still bear the weight of that past. One example is the historical contributions of minorities such as African Americans (e.g.,Prieto & Phipps, 2016). This involves intensifying the research on the impact of colonial relationships in different geographies, such as Latin America (e.g.,Wanderley & Barros, 2018), Africa (e.g.,George, Corbishley, Khayesi, Haas, & Tihanyi, 2016), and Australasia (e.g.,Mika & O'Sullivan, 2014). ...

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History, Memory, and the past in Management and Organization Studies
Re-discovering Charles Clinton Spaulding's "The Administration of Big Business": Insight into early 20th century African-American management thought

... Along the same lines, future research could also examine how individual differences may interact with the antecedents and situational factors proposed in the current model. Many different personality characteristics, for example, have been found to influence ethical perceptions and behaviors within organizations such as empathy, conscientiousness, self-efficacy, and trait anger (e.g., Randolph-Seng et al., 2020b). Further, even though the proposed model is conceived in a way that is consistent with an SSC approach in terms of stakeholders' perceptions not being static but situated across various aspects of the internal environment of the firm, the SSC approach also predicts that other components of social cognition are important; specifically, action-oriented, embodied, and distributed. ...

Propensity to Morally Disengage: The Malevolent Leader Dyad of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick

Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations

... Costs are a lesser concern because higher prices usually provide more attractive margins. Differentiation is often associated with global growth, particularly among multinational firms and in transition economies (Humphreys et al., 2020;Ullah & Wei, 2017). In South Africa, small businesses often have financial challenges that limit their ability for cost leadership and growth strategies (Gaffley & Pelser, 2021). ...

An Integrated Framework of Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Demoralized Transition Economies
  • Citing Article
  • January 2020

Journal of East European Management Studies

... A base teórica que norteia este texto foi a categoria analítica da interseccionalidade (Crenshaw,1991;Hendricks et al., 2020;Lugar et al., 2020) -por demonstrar o sexismo, o racismo e a classe social na concepção estrutural (Crenshaw,1991) -e a intracategórica (Mcclan, 2005;Kelan, 2014) -por apontar como as estruturas gênero, raça e classe social marginalizam as mulheres negras (Mirza, 2018). ...

The historic emergence of intersectional leadership: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke
  • Citing Article
  • August 2019

Leadership

... AMH) (Mills, 2017;Mills and Novicevic, 2020;Deal, 2022). AMH is a type of microhistory, which posits that the knowledge of the past may be produced on a small scale through politicized relationships among actors (Novicevic and Mills, 2019;Humphreys and Pane Haden, 2020). ...

Leadership on Request: Followers and the Social Construction of Milton Hershey's Leader Identity
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  • August 2019

Academy of Management Proceedings

... Recently microhistory has drawn the attention of management and organizational scholars (Maclean et al., 2015;Mills, 2017). While Novicevic et al. (2019) examine a series of letters sent to Civil Rights activist James Meredith to study expressions of leadership, our case is the memoir of Harold Bixby and what it can tell us about CQ development. Thus, through microhistory, we are exploring the micro aspects of social life (namely, Bixby's memoir) to throw light on the larger, macro aspects of social life (namely, the cultural learning process). ...

Both loved and despised: Uncovering a process of collective contestation in leadership identification
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  • November 2018

Organization

... El número de estas investigaciones es relativamente bajo, lo que se explica por la creciente pérdida de poder de los sindicatos y porque su análisis ha quedado circunscrito al campo de la sociología del trabajo. De la misma forma, son poco numerosas las investigaciones sobre formas abiertas de macrorresistencia, tales como los motines (Humphreys et al., 2013) y las rebeliones (Rossman, 2005), las cuales parecen ser cada vez menos frecuentes en la organización contemporánea, basada en otro tipo de mecanismos de control (Fleming, 2014). ...

Upward Defiance in Organizations: Management Lessons from the Battle of Blair Mountain
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  • July 2012

Academy of Management Proceedings

... Originating in positive psychology, psychological capital is a higher-order construct comprised of four first-order constructs: self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. Team members high in psychological capital can more effectively address problems, cope with uncertainty, overcome challenges, and inspire others through a contagion effect (Baur et al., 2018). Psychological capital is a resource that allows teammates to remain positive despite obstacles and to serve as role models for others (Gooty et al., 2009). ...

When Things Go From Bad to Worse: The Impact of Relative Contextual Extremity on Benjamin Montgomery’s Positive Leadership and Psychological Capital
  • Citing Article
  • January 2018

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

... We allowed each paper to cover and be classified across one or more topics. Cheung et al., 2019;Modesti et al., 2020;Senthanar et al., 2021) Motivation for SE (Chen, 2021;Cruz & Fromm, 2019;Lee, 2018;Senthanar et al., 2021) Social entrepreneurship opportunities (Harima et al., 2021;Harima & Freudenberg, 2020) Motivation for SE (Mittermaier et al., 2023) PROCESSES Legitimacy building (Bolzani et al., 2020;Madichie, 2016) Managing tensions (Mafico et al., 2021;Sepulveda et al., 2013) Effectiveness of social entrepreneurship practices (Schwabenland & Hirst, 2022) Legitimacy building (Barinaga, 2013;Rivna & Gress, 2023;Tracey & Phillips, 2016) Managing tensions (Forde & Mackenzie, 2010;Leslie et al., 2023;McKay et al., 2018;Murphy et al., 2018;Rantisi & Leslie, 2021;Streuli & Lewis, 2022) Effectiveness of social entrepreneurship practices (Kidd & McKenzie, 2014;Kuckertz et al., 2023;McSweeney, 2023;Norbäck & Zapata Campos, 2022) OUTPUTS Impact on migrants' wellbeing (Burrai et al., 2022;Kong, 2019) Work integration (Freudenberg & Halberstadt, 2018) Impact on migrants' wellbeing Kong, 2011;Praetorius et al., 2016;Sahyoun et al., 2019) Work integration (Bidet & Jeong, 2016;Calò et al., 2022;Freudenberg & Halberstadt, 2018;Gaillard & Hughes, 2014;Idiakez et al., 2022;Walk et al., 2015) As a first descriptive consideration, the literature about the antecedents to SEs tied to international migration issues (inputs) was mainly studied by scholars focusing on SEs founded by migrants; contrarily, the majority of the articles related to impacts of SEs in the domain of migrants' inclusion (outputs) have analysed SE created for migrants. Such a trend shows that, in general terms, research about SE by migrants is more focused on migrants as the main protagonist of SE creation, thus aiming to understand the factors that explain enterprise creation. ...

Social enterprise in Antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824-1829)

Journal of Management History

... Similarly, Amis, Mair, and Munir's (2020) extensive review identifies institutionalised 'myths' which are central to the reproduction of inequalities. The 'institutional work' perspective has also been applied to leadership by Novicevic et al. (2017), drawing upon the 'collective and situated lived experience of organisational leaders' (591) to understand processes of social change (see also : Stott and Fava 2019). Similarly, Creed, Dejordy, and Lok (2010) take an institutional perspective and examine the lived experience of LGBT ministers in the church. ...

Collective leadership as institutional work: interpreting evidence from Mound Bayou

Leadership