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Kyle Emich

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Title Professor of Management
Email kemich@nospam68ee0e8b00093.udel.edu
Office 319 Alfred Lerner Hall
Phone (302) 831-1761
Biography

Biography

Kyle J. Emich (Ph.D., Cornell University) is a professor of business administration at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. He is also a fellow of the Women’s Leadership Institute and SWUFE/UD Joint Institute. His research explores the role of individual attributes, particularly perceptions and emotions, in team dynamics and multilevel systems. His 42 publications appear in a number of management and psychology journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods and Psychological Science. His work has also been cited in media outlets such as TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American.

Education

  • Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Cornell University, 2012
  • M.S. in organizational behavior, Cornell University, 2009
  • B.A. in psychology, State University of New York at Oswego, 2006

Select Publications

  • Takacs-Haynes, K.T., Emich, K.J., & Norder, K. (2026). Greed: A Multilevel Interdisciplinary Review and Integrated Research Agenda. Academy of Management Annals.
  • Han, S., Park, H., Kim, J., & Emich, K.J. (2026). What now? Defining capricious supervision and examining its impact on employee strain. Human Performance.
  • Emich, K.J., Lu, L., Ferguson, A.J., Peterson. R.S., Martin, S.R., McClean, E., Woodruff, T., & McCourt, M. (2024). Better together: Member proactivity is better for team performance when aligned with conscientiousness. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10, 250-272.
  • Emich, K.J., McCourt, M., Lu, L., Ferguson, A.J., & Peterson, R.S. (2024). Team composition revisited: Expanding the team member attribute alignment approach to consider patterns of more than two attributes. Organizational Research Methods, 27, 329-348.
  • Kane, A.A. & Emich, K.J. (2024). The Value of Small Samples to Groups and Teams Research: Accumulating Knowledge across Philosophies of Science. Group & Organization Management, 10596011241282703.
  • Amey, R., Emich, K.J., & Forbes, C.E. (2023). When majority men respect minority women, groups communicate better: A neurological exploration. Small Group Research, 54(6), 759-791.
  • Miron-Spektor, E., Emich, K.J., Argote, L., & Smith, W. (2022). Conceiving opposites together: How a paradoxical frame and epistemic motivation affect team creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 171, 104153.
  • Emich, K.J., Lu, L., Ferguson, A.J., Peterson, R.S., & McCourt, M. (2022). Team composition revisited: A team member attribute alignment approach. Organizational Research Methods, 25, 642-672.
  • Emich, K.J., & Vincent, L.C. (2020). Shifting focus: The influence of affective patterns on group creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 156, 24-37.
  • McClean, E., Martin, S.R., Emich, K.J., & Woodruff, T. (2018). The social consequences of voice: An examination of voice type and gender on leader emergence. Academy of Management Journal, 61, 1869-1891.

Curriculum Vitae

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