I am an associate professor of organizational behavior, focusing on leadership and research methods, at emlyon Business School, France.

Currently, I head the BRiO research group (Behavioral Research in Organizations) and serve as an Associate Editor and Methods Advisor for The Leadership Quarterly. I am also an invited scientific collaborator at the University of Lausanne (Unil), Switzerland, from which I received a Doctorate in Management and Economics. Prior to joining emlyon, I was a postdoctoral research at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I have held visiting appointements at the Universities of Amsterdam (UvA), and Munich (LMU), and at the Vlerick and ESADE Business Schools, respectively, in Brussels and Barcelona.

My research focuses primarily on top-level leadership. In particular, I am interested in understanding the psychological processes through which we select our leaders, and why individuals seek out and attain leadership positions. 

My work has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal and The Leadership Quarterly, and has been featured in a wide range of news outlets including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Financial Times, Forbes, Newsweek, and Le Monde. 

At emlyon business school, I teach organizational behavior, leadership, and research methods to MBA and PhD students. Here is my homepage at emlyon. 

I worked at music festivals, notably the Montreux and Cully Jazz festivals, for a number of years. These days seem to be more quiet and I find great joy in sharing good food and good wine with friends (particularly wines produced around Lyon, in the Burgundy, Beaujolais, and Côtes-du-Rhône regions). I’ve dabbled in yoga for about half of my short life and in meditation for half of that time. Both activities seem to make my experience of life more vivid and spacious. Most of all, I enjoy going on retreats, particularly solitary retreat in the simple and beautiful cabins of Karmê Chöling, in Vermont.

 

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Je suis chercheur en sciences comportementales et professeur à l'emlyon Business School. Ma page à l'emlyon est visible ici.

J'ai un doctorat en sciences économiques de l'Université de Lausanne, en Suisse. Avant de rejoindre l'emlyon, j'étais chercheur à la Wharton School de l'Université de Pennsylvania, aux Etats-Unis. J'ai été professeur invité dans les universités d'Amsterdam (Uva) et de Munich (LMU), ainsi qu'à la Vlerick Business School de l'Université de Leuven, en Belgique. Actuellement, je suis invité à l'Université de Lausanne (Unil) entant que collaborateur scientifique.

Mes travaux de recherche s’intéressent principalement à la question du leadership. Par exemple, je m'intéresse à comprendre comment, d'un point de vue cognitif, nous choisissions nos leaders, qu'elles sont les conséquences des systèmes de rémunérations des dirigeants, ou encore quelle est l'influence de la personnalité des dirigeants sur la marche des organisations.

Je m’intéresse également aux méthodes d’analyse statistique et comment celles-ci peuvent être utilisés aussi bien dans la recherche en sciences sociale que comme un outil pratique pour les entreprises. 

Ponctuellement, je donne des conférences et organise des séminaires pour des entreprises publiques et privées sur le thème du leadership ou sur la question d'un management basé sur les faits (evidence-based management).

 
 

Current Research Interests

Blog
Leader selection

Who gets to leads?

Why are certain individuals, rather than others, selected as leaders? Relatedly, why are certain individuals motivated to lead? Currently, I am interested in understanding why and when individuals with malevolent qualities are motived to lead. I am also studying the role of attractiveness in the selection of leaders.

Charisma

The gift of charisma.

What are the effects of charisma in the context of leadership? I have studied this in the context of leader evaluation and selection. Currently, I am interesting in understanding how values can act as a double-edge sword for charismatic leaders. I am also examining how charisma can help close the leadership gender gap.

Research methods

Correlation versus Causality.

How can we disentangle cause and effect from mere associations? Currently, I am working on how processes can be studying when mediator variables are endogenous. I am also working on how differences betweens groups can be tested in the absence of randomization.

 
 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Guillén, L., Jacquart, P., & Hogg, M. (2023) To lead, or to follow? How self-uncertainty and the dark triad of personality influence motivation to lead. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(7), 1043-1057.

  2. Bastardoz, N., Jacquart, P. & Antonakis, J. (2022) Effect of a Crisis on Charismatic Signaling: A Regression Discontinuity Design approach. The Leadership Quarterly, doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101590.

  3. Antonakis, J., Bastardoz, N., Jacquart, P., & Shamir, B. (2016). Charisma: An ill-Defined and ill-Measured Gift. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 3(1), 293-319. [PDF]

  4. Jacquart, P., & Antonakis, J. (2015). When does charisma matter for top-level leaders? Effect of attributional ambiguity. Academy of Management Journal, 58(4): 1051-1074. [PDF]

  5. Armstrong, J. S. & Jacquart, P. (2013) The Ombudsman: Is the Evidence Sufficient to Take Action on Executive Pay? Reply to Commentators. Interfaces, 43(6): 602-604. [PDF]

  6. Jacquart, P., & Armstrong, J. S. (2013) The Ombudsman: Are Top Executives Paid Enough? An Evidence-Based Review. Interfaces, 43(6): 580-586. [PDF]

  7. Antonakis, J., Bendahan, S., Jacquart, P., & Lalive, R. (2010). On Making Causal Claims: A Review and Recommendations. The Leadership Quarterly, 21(6), 1086-1120. [PDF] 

    • ⤷ Voted by the Editorial Board to receive The Leadership Quarterly 2010 Best Article of the Year Award

 

Book Chapters

  1. Jacquart, P., Cole, M. S., Gabriel, A. S., Koopman, J., & Rosen, C. (2017) Studying leadership: Introduction to research design and methods. In D.V. Day & J. Antonakis (Eds.), The nature of leadership (3rd ed.) Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks. [PDF]

  2. Antonakis, J., Bendahan, S., Jacquart, P., & Lalive, R. (2014) Causality and Endogeneity: Problems and Solutions. In D.V. Day (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations. New York: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

  3. Antonakis, J., & Jacquart, P. (2012). The Far Side of Leadership. In M. C. Bligh & R. Riggio (Eds), When Near is Far and Far is Near: Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower Relationships (pp. 155-187). New York, NY: Routledge. [PDF]

Popular Press

Jacquart, P (2016, October 12) Présidentielle américaine : et le vainqueur est… The Conversation, French edition.

Jacquart, P., & Antonakis, J. (2015, October 16) When do charismatic leaders rise to the top job? LSE blog.

Armstrong, J. S., & Jacquart, P. (2014, April 15) Business school experts: High CEO pay hurts American companies, stockholders. Fox News: Opinion Section.

 
 

C.V.

To see a PDF version of my full C.V:

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Teaching

I am currently teaching the following courses:

Organizational behavior and leadership (MBA and DBA courses)
Leadership and followership (DBA), co-taught with Susanne Braun
Organizational behavior (IFOB)

Research methods and design (all PhD-level courses)
Causal Analysis (PhD2CA)
Designing Social Science Research (PhD1SR), co-taught with Ruthanne Huising
Economics and Management of Organizations: An Experimental Emphasis (PhD), co-taught with Brice Corgnet, at the University of Lyon

 
 

Contact

emlyon business school
Department of Management
23 avenue Guy de Collongue
CS 40203
69134 Ecully Cédex
France

Phone (office): +33 (0) 472 184 676
Email: jacquart@em-lyon.com