Publications

  • Books:

Pearce, J. L. & Sowa, J. E. (2019) Organizational behavior real research for public and nonprofit managers. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh.

Pearce, J. L. (2017) Organizational behavior real research for real managers (4th ed.) Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh.

Pearce, J. L. (2012) Organizational behavior real research for real managers (3rd ed.) Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh.

Pearce, J. L. (Ed.) (2011) Status in management and organizations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Pearce, J. L. (2009) Organizational behavior real research for real managers. (2nd ed.) Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh.

Pearce, J. L. (2006) Organizational behavior real research for real managers: Individuals in organizations. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh.

Pearce, J. L. (2001) Organization and management in the embrace of government. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Pearce, J. L. (1993) Volunteers:  The organizational behavior of unpaid workers. London: Routledge.

  • Translated into Italian (Volontariato. Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 1994
  • Excerpted as Chapter 29 in Ott, J. S. (2001) Understanding nonprofit organizations: Governance, leadership, and management. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Edited Journal Special Issues:

Jones, T. M., Donaldson, T., Freeman, R. E., Harrison, J. S., Leana, C., Mahoney, J. T. & Pearce, J. L. (Eds.) (2016) Mangement theory and social welfare. Academy of Management  Review, 41, 1-13.

Pearce, J. L., De Castro, J. & Guillen, M. F. (Eds.) (2007) Influencing politics and political systems. Academy of Management Review.

Pearce, J. L. and Frese, M. (Eds.) (2000) Transitional economies in Eastern Europe. Applied Psychology: An International Review.

Pearce, J. L. (Ed.) (1993) Organizational change in the formerly communist countries of Europe. Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Book Chapters:

Randel, A. E., Zatzick, C. D. and Pearce, J. L. (forthcoming in 2017) Optimal distinctiveness and human resource development. In K. Black, R. Warhurst and S. Corlett (Eds.) Identity as a Foundation to Human Resource Development. New York: Routledge.

Pearce, J. L. (2012) Revealing themes: Applying a positive lens to the chapters on poverty and low wage work. In K. Gordon-Biddle & J. Dutton (Eds.) Using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations. New York: Psychology Press/Routledge: 463-471.

Pearce, J. L. (2012) Creating evidence-based textbooks. In D. M. Rousseau (Ed.) Handbook of evidence-based management: Corporations, classrooms and research. New York: Oxford University Press: 377-380.

Pearce, J. L. and Henderson, G. R. (2000) Understanding acts of betrayal: Implications for industrial and organizational psychology. In C. L. Cooper and I. T. Robertson (Eds.) International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2000. London: John Wiley, 165-187.

Pearce, J. L. (2000) Employability as trustworthiness. In C. R. Leana and D. M. Rousseau (Eds.) Relational wealth: A new model for employment in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 79-90.

Pearce, J. L. (1999) Appendix B: A conversation on writing in English by non-native speakers. In A. S. Huff. Writing for scholarly publication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 143-154.

Pearce, J. L. (1998) Job insecurity is important, but not for the reasons you might think: The example of contingent workers. In C. Cooper and D. M. Rousseau (Eds.)  Trends in Organizational Behavior, 5, 31-46.

Pearce, J. L. (1997) The political and economic context of organizational behavior. In S. E. Jackson and C. L. Cooper, (Eds.) Organizational behavior handbook. New York: John Wiley, 29-41.

Pearce, J. L. and Branyiczki, I. (1997) Legitimacy: An analysis of three Hungarian-West European collaborations. In P. W. Beamish and J. P. Killing (Eds.), Cooperative strategies: European perspectives. San Francisco: The New Lexington Press, 300-322.

Pearce, J. L. and Čakrt, M. (1994) Ferox Manufactured Products. In D. S. Fogel (Ed.), The reform of enterprises in emerging market economies: Cases from Czechoslovakia, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 85-102.

  • Reprinted in Marcic, D. and Puffer, S. M. (Eds.), (1994)Management International: Cases, Exercises and Readings. St Paul, MN: West.

Pearce, J. L., Branyiczki, I., and Bakacsi, G. (1993). Person-based reward systems:  Reward practices in reform-communist organizations.  In M. Maruyama (Ed.), Management reform in Eastern and Central Europe, Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth Publishing, 133-162.

Pearce, J. L. (1989) Rewarding successful performance.  In J. L. Perry and Associates Handbook of public administration, San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, 401-411

Pearce, J. L. (1987) Making sense of volunteer motivation:  The sufficiency of justification hypothesis.  In R. M. Steers and L. W. Porter (Eds.), Motivation and work behavior (4th ed.) Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 545-554.

Pearce, J. L. (1987) Why merit pay doesn’t work:  Implications from organizational theory.  In D. B. Balkin and L. R. Gomez-Mejia (Ed.), New perspectives in compensation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 169-178

  • Reprinted in R. M. Steers and L. W. Porter (Eds.) (1991) Motivation and work behavior (5th ed.) New York: McGraw-Hill, 498-506.
  • Reprinted in R. M. Steers, L. W. Porter and G. A. Bigley (Eds.) (1996) Motivation and leadership at work (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 545-554

Pearce, J. L., Stevenson, W. B., and Porter, L. W. (1986) Coalitions in the organizational context.  In R. J. Lewicki, M. H. Bazerman, and B. Sheppard (Eds.), Research on negotiation in organizations, 1, Greenwich, CT:  JAI Press, 97-115.

Perry, J. L. and Pearce, J. L. (1985)  Civil service reform and the politics of performance appraisal.  In D. H. Rosenbloom (Ed.), Public personnel policy:  The politics of civil service, Port Washington, NY: Associated Faculty Press, 146-160.

Pearce, J. L. (1985) Insufficient justification and volunteer motivation.  In L. Moore (Ed.), The motivation of volunteers, Vancouver, B.C.: Voluntary Action Resource Center, 201-213.

Pearce, J. L. (1983) Participation in voluntary associations:  How membership in a formal organization changes the rewards of participation.  In D. H. Smith, J. Van Til, V. Pestoff and D. Zeldin (Eds.), International perspectives in voluntary action research, Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America, 148-156.

Research Articles:

Portocarrero, F. F., Winkler, A-L. P. & Pearce, J. L. (2023) Broadening our understanding of human resource management for improved environmental performance. Business & Society, 62, 14-53.

McCarthy, K., Pearce, J. L., Morton, J. & Lyon, S. (forthcoming) Do you pass it on? The effects of perceived incivility on task performance and the performance evaluations of others. Organization Management Journal, 17, 43-58.

Ofer, E. L., Coyle-Shapiro, J. A-M. & Pearce, J. L. (forthcoming in 2019) Eyes wide open: Perceived exploitation and its consequences. Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1989-2018.

Pearce, J. L. and Klein, Kenji. (2017) Are secret proceedings why longer tenured employees trust their organizations least? Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.

Rao, A., and Pearce, J. L. (2016) Should management practice adapt to cultural values? The evidence against power distance adaptation. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 23, 257-286.

Huang, L. and Pearce, J. L. (2015) Managing the unknowable: The effectiveness of early-stage investor gut feel in entrepreneurial investment decisions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60, 634-670.

Pearce, J. L. (2015). Cronyism and nepotism are bad for everyone: The research evidence. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 8, 41-44.

Pearce, J. L. (2013) How can we create collaborative design knowledge in politicized contexts? Journal of Organizational Design, 2, 38-40.

Huang, L., Frideger, M. and Pearce, J. L. (2013) Political skill: Explaining the effects of nonnative accent on managerial hiring and entrepreneurial investment decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 1005-1017.

Pearce, J. L. and  Huang, L. (2012) The decreasing value of our research to management education. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 11, 247-262.

In response to comments on the above article:

    • Pearce, J. L. and Huang, L. (2012) Toward an understanding of what actionable research is. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 11, 300-301.

Pearce, J. L. and Xu, Q. J. (2012) Rating performance or contesting status: Evidence against the homophily explanation for supervisor demographic skew in performance ratings. Organization Science, 23, 373-385.

Pearce, J. L., Xin, K. M., Xu, Q. J., Rao, A. N. (2011) Managers’ context: How government capability affects managers. British Journal of Management, 22, 500-516.

Pearce, J. L., Dibble, R. and Klein, K. (2009) The effects of governments on management and organization. Academy of Management Annals, 3, 503-542.

Pearce, J. L. (2007) Organizational behavior unchained. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28, 811-814.

Pearce, J. L. (2007) We are who we teach: How teaching experienced managers fractures our scholarship.  Journal of Management Inquiry, 16, 104-110.

Pearce, J. L. (2005) Organizational scholarship and the eradication of global poverty. Academy of Management Journal, 48, 970-972.

Rao, A. N., Pearce, J. L., and Xin, K. (2005) Governments, reciprocal exchange and trust among business associates. Journal of International Business Studies, 36, 104-118.

Pearce, J. L. and Randel, A. (2004) Expectations of organizational mobility, workplace social inclusion and employee job performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, 81-98.

Pearce, J. L. (2001) How we can learn how governments matter to management and organization. Journal of Management Inquiry, 10, 103-112.

Pearce, J. L., Ramirez, R. R. and Branyiczki, I. (2001) Leadership and the pursuit of status: Effects of globalization and economic transformation. In W. S. Mobley and M. McCall (Eds.) Advances in Global Leadership, 2, 153-178.

Pearce, J. L., Branyiczki, I. and Bigley, G. A. (2000) Insufficient bureaucracy: Trust and commitment in particularistic organizations.  Organization Science, 11, 148-162.

Porter, L. W., Pearce, J. L., Tripoli, A. M. and Lewis, K. M. (1998) Differential perceptions of employers’ inducements: Implications for psychological contracts. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19, 769-782.

Bigley, G. A. and Pearce, J. L. (1998) Straining for shared meaning in organization science: Problems of trust and distrust.  Academy of Management Review, 23, 405-421.

  • Among highest 10% most frequently cited papers in the ANBAR International Management Database

Pearce, J. L., Bigley, G. A., and Branyiczki, I. (1998)  Procedural justice as modernism: Placing industrial/organizational psychology in context. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 47, 371-396.

Tsui, A. S., Pearce, J. L., Porter, L. W. and Tripoli, A. M. (1997) Alternative approaches to the employee-organization relationship: Does investment in employees pay off? Academy of Management Journal, 40, 1089-1121.

  • Selected the Best Paper of the 1997 Volume of the Academy of Management Journal
  • Selected the Academy of Management’s Human Resources Divisions for the 1998 Scholarly Contribution Award

Xin, K. and Pearce, J. L. (1996) Guanxi: Connections as substitutes for formal institutional support.  Academy of Management Journal, 39, 1641-1658.

Tsui, A. S., Pearce, J. L., Porter, L. W. and Hite, J. P. (1995) Choice of employee-organization relationship: Influence of external and internal organizational factors.  Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 13, 117-151.

Pearce, J. L., Branyiczki, J. and Bakacsi, G (1994)  Person-based reward systems: A theory of organizational reward practices in reform-communist organizations.  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 15, 261-282.

  • Reprinted in J. Berács and A. Chikán (Eds.) (1999) Managing Business in Hungary, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 279-308.

Al-Aiban, K. M. and Pearce, J. L. (1993) The influence of values on management practices:  A test in Saudi Arabia and the United States.  International Studies of Management and Organization, 23, 35-52.

Pearce, J. L. (1993) Toward an organizational behavior of contract laborers:  Their psychological involvement and effects on employee coworkers.  Academy of Management Journal, 36, 1082-1096.

Pearce, J. L. and Branyiczki, I. (1993) Revolutionizing bureaucracies: Managing change in Hungarian state-owned enterprises.  Journal of Organizational Change Management, 6, 53-64.

  • Reprinted in Managing Business in Hungary, J. Berács and A. Chikán (Eds.) , (1999) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 309-323.

Branyiczki, I., Bakacsi, G., and Pearce, J. L. (1992) The back door: Spontaneous privatization in Hungary.  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 63, 303-316.

Pearce, J. L. and Gregersen, H. B. (1991) Task interdependence and extrarole behavior: A test of the mediating effects of felt responsibility. Journal of Applied Psychology, 76, 838-844.

Pearce, J. L. and Page Jr., R. A. (1990) Palace politics: Resource allocation in radically innovative firms.  Journal of High Technology Management Research, 1, 193-205.

Roberts, K. H. et al. (1990) Reflections on the field of organizational behavior.  Journal of Management Systems, 1, 25-38.

Pearce, J. L., and Porter, L. W. (1986) Employee responses to formal performance appraisal feedback, Journal of Applied Psychology, 71, 211-218.

  • Reprinted in R. M. Steers and L. W. Porter (Eds.) (1991) Motivation and Work Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 560-572.

Pearce, J. L., and Rosener, J. (1985)  Advisory board performance:  Managing ambiguity and limited commitment in public television, Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 14, 36-47.

  • Reprinted in R. D. Herman and J. Van Til (Eds.) (1989) Nonprofit boards of directors, New Brunswick, NY: Transaction Books, 36-47.

Stevenson, W. B., Pearce, J. L., and Porter, L. W. (1985) The concept of “coalition” in organization theory and research, Academy of Management Review, 10, 256-268.

Pearce, J. L., Stevenson, W. B., and Perry, J. L. (1985) Managerial compensation based on organizational performance:  A time series analysis of the effects of merit pay, Academy of Management Journal, 28, 261-278.

Pearce, J. L., and Peters, R. H. (1985) A contradictory norms view of employer-employee exchange, Journal of Management, 11, 19-30.

Pearce, J. L. (1983) Job attitude and motivation differences between volunteers and employees from comparable organizations, Journal of Applied Psychology, 68, 646-652.

Pearce, J. L. and Perry, J. L. (1983) Comparing volunteers and employees in a test of Etzioni’s compliance typology, Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 12, 22-30.

Pearce, J. L., and Perry, J. L. (1983) Federal merit pay: A longitudinal analysis, Public Administration Review, 43, 315-325.

  • Reprinted in E. Cheumsky (Ed.) (1985) Public administration classics. Washington, D.C.: The American Society for Public Administration, 95-116.

Perry, J. L., Hanzlik, C., and Pearce, J. L. (1982) Effectiveness of merit pay pool management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2, 5-12.

Pearce, J. L. (1981) Bringing some clarity to role ambiguity research. Academy of Management Review, 6, 665-674.

Pearce, J. L. (1980) Apathy or self interest?  The volunteer’s avoidance of leadership roles, Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 9, 85-94.

Hackman, J. R., Pearce, J. L., and Wolfe, J. C. (1978) Effects of changes in job characteristics on work attitudes and behaviors: A naturally-occurring quasi-experiment, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 21, 289-304.

Oldham, G. R., Hackman, J. R., and Pearce, J. L. (1976) Conditions under which employees respond positively to enriched work, Journal of Applied Psychology, 61, 395-403.

Published Conference Proceedings:

Pearce, J. L. (2013) International collaborations in doctoral education. (2013) Higher education Teaching and Learning Conference Proceedings. Orlando, FL.

Pearce, J. L., Tripoli, A. M., Tsui, A. S. & Porter, L. W. (1997) Can human resources directors be trusted as study informants? In D. H. Kent (Ed.) Europe towards the 21st Century: Convergence and divergence. Eastern Academy of Management, 280-285.

Pearce, J. L., Bigley, G. A. and Branyiczki, I. (1996) Neo-traditionalism and organizational behavior. In J. B. Keys and L. N. Dosier (Eds.) Best papers proceedings: Fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Cincinnati, OH: Academy of Management, 284-287.

Xin, K. and Pearce, J. L. (1994). Guanxi: Good connections as substitutes for institutional support. In D. P. Moore (Ed.) Best papers proceedings: Fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas, TX: Academy of Management, 163-167.

Pearce, J. L. (1993) The role of human resources departments as mediating institutions in the maintenance of institutional trust.  In E. Kaplan and R. Pieper (Eds.) Managing in a global economy V.  Eastern Academy of Management, 69-72.

Al Aiban, K. M. and Pearce, J. L. (1989) Legal/rational and traditional management: Empirical comparison of practices in Saudi Arabia and the United States.  In D. H. Holt et al. (Eds.), Managing in a global economy III, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 233-237

Pearce, J. L. (1987) Managing volunteers:  The role of ambiguity in volunteer motivation.  In R. D. Herman (Ed.) Politics, public policy and the voluntary sector, Kansas City, MO:  University of Missouri-Kansas City, 323-339.

Pearce, J. L. (1983) Labor that is worth nothing:  The paradox of volunteers.  In M. S. Moyer (Ed.), Managing voluntary organizations, Toronto, Ontario:  York University, 94-

Pearce, J. L. (1981) Sufficiency of justification:  Field test and extension of a hypothesis.  In K. H. Chung (Ed.) Academy of Management proceedings. Academy of Management, 141-145.

Applied Articles:  

Aguinis, H., et al. (2017) Using organizational science research to address U.S. Federal agencies’ management and labor needs. Behavioral Science Policy Journal, 2.

Branyiczki, I., Pearce, J. L., and Bakacsi, G. (1992) A Centralizált konzultatív vezetési megközelítés szerepe az állami vállalatok sikeres piacorientált szervezetté alakítasában.  Vezetéstudomány, XXII (3), 56-60.

Pearce, J. L. (1991) From socialism to capitalism: The effects of Hungarian human resources practices.  The Academy of Management Executive, 5, 75-88.

  •  Reprinted in M. Maruyama (Ed.) (1993) Management reform in Eastern and Central Europe, Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth Publishing, 111-131.

Perry, J. L., and Pearce, J. L. (1983) Initial reactions to federal merit pay. Personnel Journal, 62, 230-237.

Pearce, J. L. (1982) Leading and following volunteers:  Implications for a changing society. Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences, 18, 385-394.

Invited Articles, Essays, Book Reviews, and Reports:

Pearce, J. L. (forthcoming) Obsession or Kindness? Journal of Management Inquiry, In Advocacy and the Search for Truth curated section.

Pearce, J. L. (2016) Ask the business-school ranking media to walk their talk. Journal of Management Education, 40, 722-725.  doi: 10.1177/1052562916653225

Pearce, J. L. (2008) Bureaucracy and trust. International Public Management Journal, 11, 481-485.

Pearce, J. L. (2007) Review of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. By A. J. Mayo, N. Nohira and L. G. Singleton in Administrative Science Quarterly, 52, 489-491.

Pearce, J. L. (2004) Review of The Employment Relationship by J. A-M. Coyle-Shapiro, L. M. Shore, M. S. Taylor, and L. E. Tetrick in Administrative Science Quarterly, 49, 474-476.

Pearce, J. L. (2004) Presidential address: What do we know and how do we really know it? Academy of Management Review, 29, 1-5.

Pearce, J. L. (2004) Why trust? Why distrust? Multi-level Issues in Organizational Behavior and Processes, 3, 149-157.

Pearce, J. L. (2003) Introduction: Former Enron vice president Sherron Watkins on the Enron collapse. Academy of Management Executive, 17, 119-120.

Pearce, J. L.  (2003) Foreword to Boyacigiller, N., Goodman, R., and Phillips, M. Crossing cultures: Insights from master teachers. New York: Routledge.

Bartunek, J. M., Cummings, T. G., Pearce, J. L., Rousseau, D. M., Tung, R. L., Van de Ven, A.H., Urbanowicz, N. and Loncar, T. M. (2003) Leading what seems to be (to its leaders, at least) to be an incentiveless, learningless organization that sometimes appears (to its leaders, at least)to  work. Journal of Management Inquiry, 12, 105-114.

Olian, J. D., et al. (2003) Sustaining scholarship in business schools. St. Louis, MO: AACSB (www.gfme.org/issues/pdf/sustainingscholarship.pdf ).

Pearce, J. L. Foreword to Doh, J. P. and Teegen, H. (2003) Globalization and NGOs: Transforming business, governments and society. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Pearce, J. L. (2002) Review of Managing organizational change in transition economies. D. R. Denison (Ed.) in Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, 566-567.

Pearce, J. L. (2001) Less epistemology; More government and social status. Human Relations, 54,85-89.

Pearce, J. L. (2000) Review of Managing radical organizational change by K. L. Newman and S. D. Nollen in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38, 164-167.

Pearce, J. L. (1998) Review of Face, harmony, and social structure: An analysis of organizational behavior across cultures by C. Earley in Personnel Psychology, 51, 1029-1032.

Pearce, J. L. (1998) Review of Psychological contract by D. M. Rousseau in Administrative Science Quarterly, 43, 184-186.

Pearce, J. L. (1996) Review of  The human resource challenge of international joint ventures by D. J. Cyr in Personnel Psychology, 49, 717-721.

Pearce, J. L. (1995) A reviewer’s introduction to staging the new romantic hero in the old cynical theatre: On managers, roles and change in Poland. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 16, 628-630.

Pearce, J. L. (1988) Review of The nonprofit sector:  A research handbook by W. W. Powell (Ed.) in Contemporary Psychology, 33, 518.

Pearce, J. L. (1987) Review of Nonprofit organization governance by K. W. Astor in the Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 16, 77-78.

Pearce, J. L. (1985) Review of Public Personnel Update by M. Cohen and R. T. Golembiewski in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 4, 622.

Pearce, J. L. (1983) Review of The logic of organization by A. Kuhn and R. D. Beam in the Academy of Management Review, 8, 698-699.