dc.contributor.author | Kulich, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Lorenzi-Cioldi, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Iacoviello, V | |
dc.contributor.author | Faniko, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Ryan, MK | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-29T12:29:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07-23 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research into the glass cliff indicates that adverse company circumstances, compared to favorable ones, increase the likelihood of women to be appointed in leadership positions. Study 1 refined the conditions under which a glass cliff occurs by demonstrating a preference for a female leader when a company's performance was attributed to past leadership (an internal, controllable cause) but not when it was attributed to global economic circumstances (an external, uncontrollable cause). Study 2 replicated the glass cliff for a controllable context and revealed that the female candidate's potential to signal change, rather than her quality and suitability as a leader, accounted for the preference of the female candidate. We conclude that women, as non-traditional leaders, are strategic choices of companies with the aim to signal change to the outside world (e.g., investors) when past leadership is held responsible for a crisis. However, they are not expected to actually impact on the company's performance through their leadership quality. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2015, Vol. 61, pp. 96 - 103 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.07.002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20242 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's policy | en_GB |
dc.title | Signaling change during a crisis: Refining conditions for the glass cliff | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-1031 | |
dc.description | Published | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.07.002 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | en_GB |