Staff profile

Jakob Stollberger is a Professor in Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Durham University Business School. Prior to joining Durham University, Jakob held various research positions at Aston Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, and the University of Birmingham in the UK as well as at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As a work psychologist, Jakob explores how behavioral insights can support organizations in their day-to-day work. His research agenda focuses on themes that lie at the intersection between organizations and society, such as issues around how leaders can promote or derail organizational innovation efforts, how work influences family dynamics, as well as how humans can best work together with artificial intelligence (AI) in the not-too-distant future of work. In empirically exploring these themes, he relies on his expertise in study design (e.g., experience sampling studies, and randomized controlled trials) and quantitative data analysis (e.g., latent growth modelling and multilevel modelling).

Jakob's research has been published in a number of leading journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, or Human Resource Management, among others. For his research on leader nonverbal and emotional communication, Jakob was awarded the 2024 Barsade Prize, an award given by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in recognition of the paper that most significantly advanced our theoretical and empirical understanding of emotions in organizations. Jakob's scholarship also featured in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings and was shortlisted for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. He also acts as Reviewer for a number of top-tier journals and received the Human Relations Reviewer of the Year 2022 Award. Jakob currently also serves as Associate Editor for Human Relations, the flagship journal of the Tavistock Institute in London that recently celebrated its 75th anniversary.

Jakob regularly writes impactful practitioner-oriented pieces for outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, the World Financial Review, or the European Business Review and his work received media coverage in Forbes, The World Economic Forum, or The Conversation UK among others. His research has attracted external funding (e.g., ESRC) and he is a regularly invited speaker at academic institutions, businesses, and governmental bodies.

• Leadership (e.g., leader behaviors and nonverbal communication)
• The work-family interface
• Creativity and innovation
• AI and the future of work

Conference Paper

• Stollberger, J., Las Heras, M., Rofcanin, Y., & Bosch, M. J. (2019, August). Serving followers and family? A trickle-down model of how servant leadership shapes employee work performance. Presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2019: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2019, Boston, MA, USA

Journal Article

• Stollberger, J., Gerpott, F. H., & Rivkin, W. (online). How we get along depends on how you make me feel: An episodic perspective on leader–follower emotional entrainment and daily interaction quality. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12519
• Stollberger, J., Guillaume, Y., & van Knippenberg, D. (2024). Inspiring, Yet Tiring: How Leader Emotional Complexity Shapes Follower Creativity. Organization Science, 35(3), 1015-1041. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.13152
• Schweitzer, V. M., Gerpott, F. H., Rivkin, W., & Stollberger, J. (2023). (Don't) mind the gap? Information gaps compound curiosity yet also feed frustration at work. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 178, Article 104276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104276
• Stollberger, J., Ali Al-Atwi, A., & De Cremer, D. (2023). Untangling the team social capital–team innovation link: The role of proportional task conflict as well as group- and differentiated individual-focused transformational leadership. Human Relations, 76(6), 871-900. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267221080995
• Stollberger, J., Shemla, M., de Cremer, D., Yang, Y., & Sanders, K. (2023). Does emotional restraint or exuberance get you the job? How and when enthusiasm intensity is related to perceived job suitability. Human Resource Management, 62(2), 141-158. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22134
• Rivkin, W., Diestel, S., Stollberger, J., & Sacramento, C. (2023). The role of regulatory, affective, and motivational resources in the adverse spillover of sleep in the home domain to employee effectiveness in the work domain. Human Relations, 76(2), 199-232. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211052469
• Erdogan, D. T., Heras, M. L., Rofcanin, Y., Bosch, M. J., & Stollberger, J. (2022). Family motivation of supervisors: Exploring the impact on subordinates’ work performance via family supportive supervisor behaviors and work–family balance satisfaction. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(12), 1179-1195. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12919
• Stollberger, J., Heras, M. L., & Rofcanin, Y. (2022). Sharing Is Caring: The Role of Compassionate Love for Sharing Coworker Work–Family Support at Home to Promote Partners’ Creativity at Work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(10), 1824-1842. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000985
• Rofcanin, Y., Las Heras, M., Bosch, M. J., Stollberger, J., & Mayer, M. (2021). How do weekly obtained task i-deals improve work performance?The role of relational context and structural job resources. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(4), 555-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2020.1833858
• Stollberger, J., Bosch, M. J., Las Heras, M., Rofcanin, Y., & Daher, P. (2020). The tone at the top: a trickle-down model of how manager anger relates to employee moral behaviour. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 29(6), 907-921. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2020.1804876
• Stollberger, J., & Debus, M. E. (2020). Go with the flow, but keep it stable? The role of flow variability in the context of daily flow experiences and daily creative performance. Work & Stress, 34(4), 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2019.1695293
• Stollberger, J., Las Heras, M., Rofcanin, Y., & Bosch, M. J. (2019). Serving followers and family? A trickle-down model of how servant leadership shapes employee work performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 112, 158-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.02.003
• Las Heras, M., Rofcanin, Y., Matthijs Bal, P., & Stollberger, J. (2017). How do flexibility i-deals relate to work performance? Exploring the roles of family performance and organizational context. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(8), 1280-1294. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2203