Robert House Faculty Profile

Robert House
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Organizational Studies; Professor of Management

PhD, Ohio State University, 1960; MBA, University of Detroit, 1958; BS, University of Detroit, 1955

Research Areas
Leadership; motivation; personality and performance; cross-cultural organizational behavior

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1988-present (named Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Organizational Studies, 1988). Previous appointments: University of Suffolk, United Kingdom; University of Toronto, Canada; City University of New York; Executive Director, McKinsey Foundation for Management Research; University of Michigan; Ohio State University. Visiting appointments: Stanford University; Concordia University; University of Southern California; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Vrije University of Amsterdam; INSEAD, France; University of Maryland

Other Positions
Senior Management Training Specialist, North American Aviation, Inc., 1958-59; Personnel Analyst, Chrysler Corporation, 1955-58; Management Development Research Analyst, Corporation, 1956-58

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Irwin Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, Academy of Management, 1991; Four Best Competitive Conference Paper Awards; Award for Best Published Paper in Organizational Behavior, 1991. Awards conferred by Academy of Management

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Co-Founder (1989) and Executive Editor, Leadership Quarterly, 1991-present

Representative Publications
(with D.Waldman, G. Ramirez, and P.Puranam)
"The Effects of U.S. CEO Leader Behavior on Firm Profits Under Conditions of Environmental Certainty and Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Investigation." Academy of Management Journal (2000).

"Weber and the Neo-Charismatic Leadership Paradigm." The Leadership Quarterly 10.4 (2000).

(with P.J. Hanges, A Quntanilla, P.W. Dorfman, M.W. Dickson and M.Javidan, et al.)
"Culture, Leadership, and Organizational Practices." in Advances in Global Leadership W.H. Mobley, ed., JAI Press, 1999.

(with R. Aditya)
"The Social Scientific Study of Leadership: Quo Vadis? Invited Monograph. Journal of Management 233.3 (1997).

(with N. Wright and R.N. Aditya)
"Cross Cultural Leadership." Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior and Psychology C. Earley and M. Eriz, eds., New Frontier Series of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1997.

(with S. Shane and D. Herold)
"Rumors of the Death of Dispositional Research are Vastly Exaggerated." Academy of Management Review 21.1 (1996).

(with D. Rousseau and M. Thomas)
"The MESO Paradigm: A Framework for the Integration of Micro and Macro Organizational Behavior." L.L. Cumnings and B.M. Staw, eds, Research in Organizational Behavior: An Annual Series of Analytical Essays and Critical Reviews, Volume 15, Greenwich Ct: JAI Press, 1995.