Blake Ashforth

Books:

Pratt, M.G., Schultz, M., Ashforth, B.E., & Ravasi, D. (Eds.) (2016). Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Ashforth, B.E. (2001). Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-Based Perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Refereed Publications:

Anisman-Razin, M., Kark, R., & Ashforth, B.E. (in press). “Doing distance”: The role of managers’ enactment of psychological distance in leader-follower relationships. Group & Organization Management.

Fenters, V.W., Balven, R.M., Ashforth, B.E., Waldman, D.A., & Siegel, D.S. (in press). How identity structure influences identity adoption: The case of hybrid entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Journal.

Naldi, L., Nordqvist, M., Chirico, F., Gomez-Mejia, L., Ashforth, B.E., Swartz, R., & Melin, L. (in press). From “FIBER” to “FIRE”: Construct validation and refinement of the Socioemotional Wealth Scale in family firms. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Sharma, P.N., Rogers, K.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (in press). Emboldened in the rap “game”: How severely stigmatized video models navigate disrespect and vulnerability to workplace mistreatment. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Wittman, S., Ashforth, B.E., & Ibarra, H. (in press). Achieving holism: Narrating multiple identities in the moment and over time. Academy of Management Review.

Ashforth, B.E., Caza, B.B., & Meister, A. (2024). My place: How workers become identified with their workplaces and why it matters. Academy of Management Review, 49, 366-398.

Ashforth, B.E., Caza, B.B., & Meister, A. (in press). Mobilities and moorings: A reply to “Keeping movement in mind: Workplace identification and mobilities theorizing.” Academy of Management Review. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., & Mael, F.A. (2024). Back to the future: What we’d change in “Social Identity Theory and the Organization” (Academy of Management Review, 1989, 14, 20-39). Journal of Management Inquiry, 33, 329-335. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., Schinoff, B.S., Rogers, K.M., & Lange, D. (2024). Being Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Role-based identity foils in organizational life. Organization Science, 35, 232-258.

Caza, B.B., Meister, A., & Ashforth, B.E. (2023). How your physical surroundings shape your work life. Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2023/04/how-your-physical-surroundings-shape-your-work-life.

Ashforth, B.E., & Humphrey, R.H. (2022). Institutionalized affect in organizations: Not an oxymoron. Human Relations, 75, 1483-1517. [Invited]

Jiang, J.Y., Ashforth, B.E., & Li, J. (2022). The long walk together: The role of institutionalized socialization in shaping newcomers’ future expectations about their networks. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 137(Article 103757), 1-17.

Ashforth, B.E. (2020). From saint to sinner: Commentary on “Leveraging a recessive narrative to transform Joe Paterno’s image: Media sensebreaking, sensemaking, and sensegiving during scandal,” by Derron Bishop, Linda Treviño, Denny Gioia, and Glen Kreiner. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6, 702-704. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E. (2020). Identity and identification during and after the pandemic: How might COVID-19 change the research questions we ask? Journal of Management Studies, 57, 1763-1766. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., Schinoff, B.S., & Brickson, S.L. (2020). “My company is friendly,” “mine’s a rebel”: Anthropomorphism and shifting organizational identity from “what” to “who.” Academy of Management Review, 45, 29-57.

Bednar, J., Galvin, B.M., Ashforth, B.E., & Hafermalz, E. (2020). Putting identification in motion: A dynamic view of organizational identification. Organization Science, 31, 200-222.

Schinoff, B.S., Ashforth, B.E., & Corley, K.G. (2020). Virtually in(separable): The role of relational cadence in the formation of virtual multiplex relationships. Academy of Management Journal, 63, 1395-1424.

Ashforth, B.E. (2019). Stigma and legitimacy: Two ends of a single continuum or different continua altogether? Journal of Management Inquiry, 28, 22-30. [Invited]

Crawford, W.S., Thompson, M.J., & Ashforth, B.E. (2019). Work-life events theory: Making sense of shock events in dual-earner couples. Academy of Management Review, 44, 194-212.

Schinoff, B., Ashforth, B.E., & Corley, K. (2019). How remote workers make work friends. Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2019/11/how-remote-workers-make-work-friends.

Wang, D., Waldman, D.A., & Ashforth, B.E. (2019). Building relationships through accountability: An expanded idea of accountability. Organizational Psychology Review, 9, 184-206.

Fuller, P., Galvin, B.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2018). Larger than life: Narcissistic organizational identification in leadership. Organizational Dynamics, 47, 8-16.

Ashforth, B.E., Kreiner, G.E., Clark, M.A., & Fugate, M. (2017). Congruence work in stigmatized occupations: A managerial lens on employee fit with dirty work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38, 1260-1279.

Lin, C.-P., He, H., Baruch, Y., & Ashforth, B.E. (2017). The effect of team affective tone on team performance: The roles of team identification and team cooperation. Human Resource Management, 56, 931-952.

Rogers, K.M., Corley, K.G., & Ashforth, B.E. (2017). Seeing more than orange: Organizational respect and positive identity transformation in a prison context. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62, 219-269. (Outstanding Published Article in POS, Center for Positive Organizations, 2019; based on a 3-year window)

Ashforth, B.E. (2016). Exploring identity and identification in organizations: Time for some course corrections. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 23, 361-373. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., Schinoff, B.S., & Rogers, K.M. (2016). “I identify with her,” “I identify with him”: Unpacking the dynamics of personal identification in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 41, 28-60.

Lin, C.-P., He, H., Baruch, Y., & Ashforth, B.E. (2016). The effect of team affective tone on team performance: The roles of team identification and team cooperation. Human Resource Management, in press.

Christoforou, P.S., & Ashforth, B.E. (2015). Revisiting the debate on the relationship between display rules and performance: Considering the explicitness of display rules. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 249-261.

Galvin, B.M., Lange, D., & Ashforth, B.E. (2015). Narcissistic organizational identification: Seeing oneself as central to the organization’s identity. Academy of Management Review, 40, 163-181.

Humphrey, R.H., Ashforth B.E., & Diefendorff, J.M. (2015). The bright side of emotional labor. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, 749-769. [Point-counterpoint debate]

Ashforth, B.E., & Kreiner, G.E. (2014). Contextualizing dirty work: The neglected role of cultural, historical, and demographic context. Journal of Management & Organization, 20, 423-440. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., & Kreiner, G.E. (2014). Dirty work and dirtier work: Differences in countering physical, social, and moral stigma. Management and Organization Review, 10, 81-108. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., & Reingen, P.H. (2014). Functions of dysfunction: Managing the dynamics of an organizational duality in a natural food cooperative. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59, 474-516.

Ashforth, B.E., Rogers, K.M., Pratt, M.G., & Pradies, C. (2014). Ambivalence in organizations: A multilevel approach. Organization Science, 25, 1453-1478.

O’Leary-Kelly, A.M., Henderson, K.E., Anand, V., & Ashforth, B.E. (2014). Psychological contracts in a nontraditional industry: Exploring the implications for psychological contract development. Group & Organization Management, 39, 326-360.

Ashforth, B.E., Joshi, M., Anand, V., & O’Leary-Kelly, A.M. (2013). Extending the expanded model of organizational identification to occupations. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 2426-2448.

Nifadkar, S., Tsui, A.S., & Ashforth, B.E. (2012). The way you make me feel and behave: Supervisor triggered newcomer affect and approach-avoidance behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 55, 1146-1168.

Sluss, D.M., Ashforth, B.E., & Gibson, K.R. (2012). The search for meaning in (new) work: Task significance and newcomer plasticity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81, 199-208.

Sluss, D.M., Ployhart, R.E., Cobb, M.G., & Ashforth, B.E. (2012). Generalizing newcomer’s relational and organizational identifications: Processes and prototypicality. Academy of Management Journal, 55, 949-975.

Ashforth, B.E., Rogers, K.M., & Corley, K.G. (2011). Identity in organizations: Exploring cross-level dynamics. Organization Science, 22, 1144-1156. [Invited]

Harrison, S.H., Sluss, D.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2011). Curiosity adapted the cat: The role of trait curiosity in newcomer adaptation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 211-220.

Ashforth, B.E., Gioia, D.A., Robinson, S.L., & Treviño, L.K. (2008). Re-viewing organizational corruption. Academy of Management Review, 33, 670-684. [Introduction to the special issue on organizational corruption]

Ashforth, B.E., Harrison, S.H., & Corley, K.G. (2008). Identification in organizations: An examination of four fundamental questions. Journal of Management, 34, 325-374. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., Kulik, C.T., & Tomiuk, M.A. (2008). How service agents manage the person-role interface. Group & Organization Management, 33, 5-45.

Johnson, S.A., & Ashforth, B.E. (2008). Externalization of employment in a service environment: The role of organizational and customer identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29, 287-309.

Sluss, D.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2008). How relational and organizational identification converge: Processes and conditions. Organization Science, 19, 807-823.

Ashforth, B.E., Kreiner, G.E., Clark, M.A., & Fugate, M. (2007). Normalizing dirty work: Managerial tactics for countering occupational taint. Academy of Management Journal, 50, 149-174.

Ashforth, B.E., Sluss, D.M., & Saks, A.M. (2007). Socialization tactics, proactive behavior, and newcomer learning: Integrating socialization models. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 447-462.

Sluss, D.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2007). Relational identity and identification: Defining ourselves through work relationships. Academy of Management Review, 32, 9-32.

Ashforth, B.E., & Fugate, M. (2006). Attributional style in work settings: Development of a measure. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 12(3), 12-29.

Kreiner, G.E., Ashforth, B.E., & Sluss, D.M. (2006). Identity dynamics in occupational dirty work: Integrating social identity and system justification perspectives. Organization Science, 17, 619-636.

Ashforth, B.E. (2005). Becoming vanilla pudding: How we undermine our passion for research. Journal of Management Inquiry, 14, 400-403. [Invited]

Anand, V., Ashforth, B.E., & Joshi, M. (2004). Business as usual: The acceptance and perpetuation of corruption in organizations. Academy of Management Executive, 18(2), 39-53.

Fugate, M., Kinicki, A.J., & Ashforth, B.E. (2004). Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65, 14-38.

Kreiner, G.E., & Ashforth, B.E. (2004). Evidence toward an expanded model of organizational identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, 1-27.

Ashforth, B.E., & Kreiner, G.E. (2002). Normalizing emotion in organizations: Making the extraordinary   seem ordinary. Human Resource Management Review, 12, 215-235. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., & Vaidyanath, D. (2002). Work organizations as secular religions. Journal of Management Inquiry, 11, 359-370. [Invited]

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2002). Is job search related to employment quality? It all depends on the fit. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 646-654.

Terrion, J.L., & Ashforth, B.E. (2002). From “I” to “we”: The role of putdown humor and identity in the development of a temporary group. Human Relations, 55, 55-88.

Mael, F.A., & Ashforth, B.E. (2001). Identification in work, war, sports, and religion: Contrasting the benefits and risks. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 31, 197-222.

Albert, S., Ashforth, B.E., & Dutton, J.E. (2000). Organizational identity and identification: Charting new waters and building new bridges. Academy of Management Review, 25, 13-17. [Introduction to the special issue on organizational identity and identification]

Ashforth, B.E., Kreiner, G.E., & Fugate, M. (2000). All in a day’s work: Boundaries and micro role transitions. Academy of Management Review, 25, 472-491.

Ashforth, B.E., & Saks, A.M. (2000). Personal control in organizations: A longitudinal investigation with newcomers. Human Relations, 53, 311-339.

Humphrey, R.H., & Ashforth, B.E. (2000). Buyer-supplier alliances in the automobile industry: How exit-voice strategies influence interpersonal relationships. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 713-730.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2000). Change in job search behaviors and employment outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 277-287.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (2000). The role of dispositions, entry stressors, and behavioral plasticity theory in predicting newcomers’ adjustment to work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 43-62.

Ashforth, B.E. (1999).  Leadership as an embedded process: Some insights from Sayles’ Managerial behavior. Leadership Quarterly, 10, 21-24. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., & Kreiner, G.E. (1999). “How can you do it?”: Dirty work and the challenge of constructing a positive identity. Academy of Management Review, 24, 413-434.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (1999). Effects of individual differences and job search behaviors on the employment status of recent university graduates. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54, 335-349.

Ashforth, B.E., Saks, A.M., & Lee, R.T. (1998). Socialization and newcomer adjustment: The role of organizational context. Human Relations, 51, 897-926.

Bourassa, L., & Ashforth, B.E. (1998). You are about to party Defiant style: Socialization and identity onboard an Alaskan fishing boat. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 27, 171-196.

Ashforth, B.E. (1997). Petty tyranny in organizations: A preliminary examination of antecedents and consequences. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 14, 126-140.

Ashforth, B.E., & Humphrey, R.H. (1997). The ubiquity and potency of labeling in organizations. Organization Science, 8, 43-58.

Ashforth, B.E., & Lee, R.T. (1997).  Burnout as a process: Commentary on Cordes, Dougherty and Blum. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 18, 703-708. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E., Saks, A.M., & Lee, R.T. (1997). On the dimensionality of Jones’ (1986) measures of organizational socialization tactics. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 5, 200-214.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (1997). A longitudinal investigation of the relationships between job information sources, applicant perceptions of fit, and work outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 50, 395-426.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (1997). Organizational socialization: Making sense of the past and present as a prologue for the future. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 51, 234-279. [Invited]

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (1997). Socialization tactics and newcomer information acquisition. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 5, 48-61.

Ashforth, B.E., & Saks, A.M. (1996). Socialization tactics: Longitudinal effects on newcomer adjustment. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 149-178.

Fried, Y., Naughton, T.J., Tiegs, R.B., & Ashforth, B.E. (1996). Managers’ reactions to a corporate merger: A test of an integrative model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 17, 401-427.

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1996). A meta-analytic examination of the correlates of the three dimensions of burnout. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 123-133.

Saks, A.M., & Ashforth, B.E. (1996). Proactive socialization and behavioral self-management. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48, 301-323.

Saks, A.M., Mudrack, P.E., & Ashforth, B.E. (1996). The relationship between the work ethic, job attitudes, intentions to quit, and turnover for temporary service employees. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 13, 226-236.

Ashforth, B.E., & Humphrey, R.H. (1995). Emotion in the workplace: A reappraisal. Human Relations, 48, 97-125. (Designated by Human Relations as one of three “classic papers” of the 1990s.)

Ashforth, B.E., & Saks, A.M.  (1995). Work-role transitions: A longitudinal examination of the Nicholson model. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 68, 157-175.

Mael, F.A., & Ashforth, B.E. (1995). Loyal from day one: Biodata, organizational identification, and turnover among newcomers. Personnel Psychology, 48, 309-333.

Ashforth, B. (1994). Petty tyranny in organizations. Human Relations, 47, 755-778.

Ashforth, B.E. (1993). Political and apolitical action: Toward a reconciliation of contradictory models of organizational behavior. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 1, 363-384.

Ashforth, B.E., & Humphrey, R.H. (1993). Emotional labor in service roles: The influence of identity. Academy of Management Review, 18, 88-115.

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1993). A further examination of managerial burnout: Toward an integrated model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 14, 3-20.

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1993). A longitudinal study of burnout among supervisors and managers: Comparisons between the Leiter and Maslach (1988) and Golembiewski et al. (1986) models. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 54, 369-398.

Ashforth, B.E. (1992). The perceived inequity of systems. Administration & Society, 24, 375-408.

Mael, F., & Ashforth, B.E. (1992). Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 103-123. (Reprinted in 2009 Virtual Special Issue as one of “JOB’s Most Influential Articles.”)

Ashforth, B.E. (1991). The whys and wherefores of organizational Catch-22s: Common types and their implications for organization development. Public Administration Quarterly, 14, 457-482.

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1991). Evaluating two burnout models among supervisors and managers in a public welfare setting. Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration, 13, 508-527. [Invited]

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1991). Work-unit structure and processes and job-related stressors as predictors of managerial burnout. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 21, 1831-1847.

Ashforth, B.E. (1990). The organizationally induced helplessness syndrome: A preliminary model. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 7(3), 30-36.

Ashforth, B.E., & Gibbs, B.W. (1990). The double-edge of organiza­tional legitimation. Organization Science, 1, 177-194.

Ashforth, B.E., & Lee, R.T. (1990). Defensive behavior in organizations: A preliminary model. Human Relations, 43, 621-648.

Lee, R.T., & Ashforth, B.E. (1990). On the meaning of Maslach’s three dimensions of burnout. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 743-747.

Osborn, R.N., & Ashforth, B.E. (1990). Investigating the challenges to senior leadership in complex, high-risk technologies. Leadership Quarterly, 1, 147-163. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E. (1989). The experience of powerlessness in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 43, 207‑242.

Ashforth, B.E., & Lee, R.T. (1989). The perceived legitimacy of managerial influence: A twenty-five year comparison. Journal of Business Ethics, 8, 231-242.

Ashforth, B.E., & Mael, F. (1989). Social identity theory and the organization. Academy of Management Review, 14, 20‑39.

Ashforth, B.E., & Fried, Y. (1988). The mindlessness of organizational behaviors. Human Relations, 41, 305‑329.

Ashforth, B.E. (1987). Out of control: Coping with a lack of power on the job. Canadian Library Journal, 44, 425‑427. [Invited]

Ashforth, B.E. (1985). Climate formation: Issues and extensions. Academy of Management Review, 10, 837‑847.