Team Locus-of-Control Composition, Leadership Structure, Information Acquisition, and Financial Performance: A Business Simulation Study

By Christophe Boone, Woody van Olffen, A. van Witteloostuijn. 2005

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We argue that team information acquisition mediates the effect of the relationship of team locus-of-control composition and leadership structure on team financial performance in a decision-making context. Hypotheses were tested on 44 teams participating in an elaborate and lengthy international management simulation. As predicted, teams with high average internal locus-of-control scores performed better without leaders and with low locus-of-control heterogeneity. The opposite was found for teams with high average external locus-of-control scores. Contrary to expectations, teams with high locus-of-control heterogeneity did not benefit more from having leaders than teams with low heterogeneity. Information acquisition mediated relationships between locus-of-control composition and performance.

Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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In Safety Research

1. Jason D. Shaw
2. M. Duffy
3. Brian R. Dineen

In Social Psychology

1. Jason D. Shaw
2. M. Duffy
3. George A. Boyne
4. Raymond A. Noe
5. Marc Esteve
6. Brian R. Dineen
7. A. van Witteloostuijn

In Strategy and Management

1. Jason D. Shaw
2. George A. Boyne
3. Raymond A. Noe
4. Brian R. Dineen
5. A. van Witteloostuijn

Citations in the corpus

• LEVEL AND DISPERSION OF SATISFACTION IN TEAMS: USING FOCI AND SOCIAL CONTEXT TO EXPLAIN THE SATISFACTION-ABSENTEEISM RELATIONSHIP (2007, methodology): “This example, and others (e.g., Boone et al., 2005; George, 1990) provides evidence suggesting the negative relationship between satisfaction and absenteeism will be homologous at the team level and that this relationship will be even stronger when satisfaction dispersion is low.”
• The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees (2012, unknown): “In the psychological literature, there is abundant evidence that locus of control is a fundamental and stable personality trait, with clear behavioral consequences (Boone and De Brabander 1993; Boone et al. 2005; Cobb-Clark and Schurer 2011).”
• Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, background): “…for instance, personality has been used by political scientists to explain voting behavior (e.g., Gerber et al., 2010), and general management scholars have explored the impact of personality in the context of a wide range of organizational processes and outcomes (e.g., Boone et al., 2005).”