مقاله سال ۲۰۱۶

We particularly welcome theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies on the complexities of political behavior, and fresh insights into their constructive or damaging effects. Specifically, this special issue aims to develop a balanced view of this inextricable and important social process by highlighting outcomes from employees’ enactment of political behavior or perception of the political environment. In addition, we welcome papers that explore new boundary conditions (i.e., moderators) that might regulate political efficiency, as well as mediating mechanisms that might provide new insights on the processes that lead to positive or negative outcomes.

We thus encourage submissions that focus on, but are not limited to:
Antecedents and correlates of positive and negative politics across management disciplines;
Multi-level (micro, meso, macro) effects of political behavior at work;
The role of politics on strategic decision making and strategy implementation;
Non-linear effects of politics on individual, team, and organizational outcomes;
Cognitive and affective drivers of political behavior at work;
Motives, skills, and traits for successful political enactment;
How perceptions of politics shape employees’ political behavior;
Configurations of effective political behavior;
Political will and political skill differentiation within teams and their impact on personal and team outcomes;
Processes to turn politics from negative to positive, and vice versa;
Political behavior from a leader’s and follower’s perspective;
Cross-cultural differences in the motives that drive political action, in the configurations of political behavior, and in the way contextual politics affect outcomes;
New insights on the constructive and damaging effects of politics.