Scott Seibert

PhD, Cornell University
BS, SUNY Oswego

• Organizational behavior
• Leadership
• Negotiations
  

• Employee careers and career success
• Leadership and employee motivation
• Psychology of entrepreneurship
  

Seibert, S., Akkermans, J. & Liu, C-H. (2024). ”Understanding Contemporary Career Success: A Critical Review.” Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 11. *Invited Article*

Feng, J., Allen, D. G., & Seibert, S. E. (2022). “Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurial identity, job characteristics, and voluntary turnover of former entrepreneurs in paid employment.” Personnel Psychology, 75(1), 179-213.

Seibert, S. E., Nielsen, J. D. & Kraimer, M. L. (2021). “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: Entrepreneurial Identity Aspirations and the Role of Displacing Work Events.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(8), 1224-1238.
*Winner of Careers Division of AOM Best Published Paper

Kraimer, M.L., Greco, L., Seibert, S.E., & Sargent, L. (2019). “An investigation of academic career success: The new tempo of academic life.” Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18(2), 128-152.

Walter, S., Seibert, S.E., Goering, D., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2019). “A Tale of Two Sample Sources: Do Results from Online Panel Data and Conventional Data Converge?” Journal of Business and Psychology, 34, 425-452.

Seibert, S., Sargent, L., Kraimer, M. L., & Kiazad, K. (2017). “Linking Developmental Experiences to Leadership Effectiveness and Promotability: The Mediating Roles of Leadership Self-Efficacy and Mentor Networks.” Personnel Psychology, 70, 357-397.

Zhao, H. H., Seibert, S. E., Taylor, S. M., Lee, C. & Lam, W. (2016). “Not Even the Past: The Joint Influence of Former Leader and New Leader during Leader Transitions in the Midst of Organizational Change.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 101:12, 1730-1738.

Seibert, S., Kraimer, M.L., Holtom, B.C., & *Pierotti, A. (2013). “Even the Best Laid Plans Sometimes Go Askew: Career Self-Management Processes, Career Shocks, and the Decision to Pursue Graduate Education.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 98:1, 169-182.

Zhao, H., Seibert, S. & Lumpkin, T. (2010). “The Relationship of Personality to Entrepreneurial Intentions and Performance: A Meta-analytic Review.” Journal of Management, 36:2, 381-404.   

Zhao, H., Seibert, S. & Hills, G. (2005). “The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(6), 1265-1272.

Seibert, S., Silver, S., & Randolph, W.A. (2004). “Taking Empowerment to the Next Level: A Multiple-Level model of Empowerment, Performance, and Satisfaction.” The Academy of Management Journal, 47(3), 332-349.
*“Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior for 2004” by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management.

Seibert, S., Kraimer, M. L., & Liden, R.  (2001).  “A Social Capital Theory of Career Success.” Academy of Management Journal, 44(2), 219-237. *Winner of the Academy of Management Journal 2001 Best Paper Award.

Seibert, S., Crant, J.M., & Kraimer, M.L.  (1999). “Proactive Personality and Career Success.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 84(3), 416-427.

• Elected to serve as Officer of the Careers Division, Academy of Management, 2015-19
• Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior awarded for “Taking Empowerment to the Next Level: A Multiple-Level model of Empowerment, Performance and Satisfaction (see full citation below).” Awarded by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management
• Academy of Management Journal Best Published Paper Award. Awarded for the paper “A Social Capital Theory of Career Success (see full citation below).”
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP):
  Interpersonal Mistreatment, Perceived Discrimination, and Minority Identity Management: An Attributional Perspective
  Maria Kraimer (PI), with Lawrence Houston III, Jerry Liu, and Scott Seibert
  $9,450; August 2020
• Academy of Management: Strategic Doing Initiative:
  Career Obstacles, Shocks and Facilitators of Occupational Satisfaction among Academy of Management Academic Members: A Social Identity Perspective.
  Co-Investigator with Maria Kraimer and Leisa Sargent
  $20,000; July 2012 – December 2013
• Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project:
  An Evidence-based approach to Developing Human and Social Capital in Organizations.
  Co-Investigator with Leisa Sargent & Maria Kraimer
  Partner Organization: Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu, Australia
  AU$ 279,000; January 2008 – December 2010
• Graduate Management Admissions Council - Management Education Research Institute.
  The Role of MBA Education and Management Development Programs in Manager’s Early Career Paths.
  Principle Investigator
  $75,000; January 2007 – December 2009.
  

• Founding Associate Editor: Journal of Management Scientific Reports (2022- 2025)
• Special Issue Co-Editor: Journal of Management (2023). This is an Eventful Era: An Event-oriented Approach to Advancing and Expanding Organizational Research.
• Special Issue Co-Editor: Career Development International (2021). The Role of Career Shocks in Contemporary Career Development: Key Challenges and Ways Forward.
• Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology (2007- present)
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Discoveries (2015 – present)
• Consulting Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology (2013-19)
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Journal (2006-16)
• Editorial Board Member, Academy of Management Review (2008-11)
  

• Academy of Management