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Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca

Berthiaume Chaired Professor of Leadership

Management

Education

PhD in Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998
AB in Psychology, Harvard College, 1989

Academic Appointments

Berthiaume Chaired Professor of Leadership, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2021-present
Distinguished Research Professor in Management, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, United Kingdom, 2019-present
Gatton Chaired Professor of Management, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2014-2021
Gatton Endowed Professor of Management, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2012-2013
Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Management, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2006-2012
Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Roberto C. Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2001-2006
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1998-2001

Recent Honors / Awards

Teaching Excellence Award Winner, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, 2019
Outstanding reviewer for Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management, 2017

Research Interests

Workplace Social Networks
Conflict and Negotiation
Organization Design
Innovation

Teaching Interests

General
  • Organization Theory and Design
  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

Selected Publications

Borgatti, S.P., Mehra, A., Brass, D.J., & Labianca, G. (2009). “Network Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Science, 323: 892-895.

Labianca, G., Brass, D.J., & Gray, B. (1998). “Social Networks and Perceptions of Intergroup Conflict: The Role of Negative Relationships and Third Parties.” Academy of Management Journal, 41: 55-67.

Oh, H., Chung, M-H., & Labianca, G. (2004). “Group Social Capital and Group Effectiveness: The Role of Informal Socializing Ties.” Academy of Management Journal, 47: 860-875. 

Sung, W., Woehler, M., Fagan, J., Floyd, T., Grosser, T.J., & Labianca, G. (2017). “Employees' Responses to an Organizational Merger: Intraindividual Change in Organizational Identification, Attachment, and Turnover.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 102: 910-934. 

Woehler, M., Floyd, T., Shah, N., Sung, W., Grosser, T.J., Fagan, J., & Labianca, G. (2021). “Turnover During a Corporate Merger: How Workplace Network Change Influences Staying.” Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000864