Research & Scholarly Leadership
Nathan’s research explores what enables leaders and organizations to succeed—and why they sometimes fail. His academic work complements years of advising CEOs, senior executives, and frontline leaders, creating a unique perspective that bridges evidence-based research with real-world leadership challenges across industries.
Current Academic Leadership
Nathan actively contributes to the advancement of leadership research through editorial, academic, and professional leadership roles.
- Executive Director, FIU Center for Leadership – Oversees leadership development programs that have supported nearly 6,000 leaders over the past twelve years.
- Co-President, Academy of Management’s Network of Leadership Scholars
- Associate Editor, Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
- Editorial Board Member, The Leadership Quarterly
- Member, League of Leadership
Publications
CEO Characteristics and Corporate Social Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Mirrored or Distinct Correlates? A Meta-Analytic Review.
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2026.
Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization.
Edited by Stephen J. Zaccaro, Nathan J. Hiller & Richard Klimoski.
SIOP Frontiers Series, Book, 2024.
Good Fun or Laughingstock? How CEO Humor Affects Infomediaries’ Social Evaluations of Organizations.
Academy of Management Review, 2024.
The Corporate Chief of Staff: Strategic Leadership from Outside the Spotlight.
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2024.
Leader Humor Across Levels.
Cooper, C. & Hiller, N. J.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023.
Metacritiques of Upper Echelons Theory: Verdicts and Recommendations for Future Research.
B. H. Neely Jr., J. B. Lovelace, A. P. Cowen & Nathan J. Hiller.
Journal of Management, 2020.
Economic Assumptions and Economic Context: Implications for the Study of Leadership.
Hiller, N. J., Piccolo, R. F. & Zaccaro, S. J.
The Leadership Quarterly, 2020.
Benevolence and Authority as WEIRDly Unfamiliar: A Multi-Language Meta-Analysis of Paternalistic Leadership Behaviors from 152 Studies.
The Leadership Quarterly, 2019.
Assessment and Development First Requires a Deeper Understanding of Unique Categories of Senior Leaders: A Focus on CEOs and C-Level Executives.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2019.
Different Roles of Shared and Vertical Leadership in Promoting Team Creativity: Cultivating and Synthesizing Team Members’ Individual Creativity.
Personnel Psychology, 2019.
The Mindsets of a Leader.
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2018.
Executive Leadership: CEOs, Top Management Teams, and Organizational-Level Outcomes.
Hiller, N. J. & Beauchesne, M. M.
The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations, 2014.
CEO Career Variety: Effects on Firm-Level Strategic and Social Novelty.
Academy of Management Journal, 2013.
Searching for Outcomes of Leadership: A 25-Year Review.
Journal of Management, 2011.
Leadership Across Levels: Levels of Leaders and Their Levels of Impact.
DeChurch, L. A., Hiller, N. J., Murase, T., Doty, D. & Salas, E.
The Leadership Quarterly, 2010.
The Bright Side and the Dark Side of CEO Personality: Examining Core Self-Evaluations, Narcissism, Transformational Leadership, and Strategic Influence.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2009.
Work-Unit Absenteeism: Effects of Satisfaction, Commitment, Labor Market Conditions, and Time.
Academy of Management Journal, 2008.
Individual Differences and Group Negotiation: The Role of Polychronicity, Dominance, and Decision Rule.
Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 2008.
Collective Enactment of Leadership Roles and Team Effectiveness: A Field Study.
The Leadership Quarterly, 2006.
Conceptualizing Executive Hubris: The Role of (Hyper-) Core Self-Evaluations in Strategic Decision-Making.
Strategic Management Journal, 2005.
An Examination of Leadership Beliefs and Leadership Self-Identity: Constructs, Correlates, and Outcomes.
Nathan J. Hiller.
The Pennsylvania State University, 2005.
Self-Monitoring Personality at Work: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Construct Validity.
Day, D. V., Shleicher, D. J., Unckless, A. L. & Hiller, N. J.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002.