My research has investigated: the asymmetric negative effects of "bad apple" teammates, the contagion of quitting (i.e. turnover), the nature and performance implications of stakeholder cultures, the effects of defining oneself as a moral person, and the empirical evidence for normative managerial prescriptions. These diverse projects are linked together by a desire to create more effective and humane organizations.

With respect to the Positive Organizational Scholarship community, my particular fascination is with the social organization of this group. POS is brilliantly unique in its level of institutional organization and "social movement" quality - e.g. the large number of conferences and meetings, the funding structures, the focus on defining and legitimating its activities, this website, etc. As someone who has a number of concerns about the extant methods and legitimated topics of management scholarship, I am looking towards the "POS movement" to see the extent to which a small organized group of scholars can change the norms of inquiry.