![](https://neoma-bs.com/sites/default/files/uploaded_images/profs-neoma_0.png)# LONATI Sirio { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "LONATI\u0020Sirio", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/node/8658.md" } ] } - [Home](https://neoma-bs.com/) - LONATI Sirio ![](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploaded_images/photos_academ/33551-lonati-sirio.jpg?itok=8MCKLa2s)LONATI Sirio Associate Professor - About - Academic publications [People & Organisations](https://neoma-bs.com/departements/people-organisations) Ph.D. in Economics (specialization in Management) Sirio is an Associate Professor in the People & Organisations Department at NEOMA. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an undergraduate degree from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy. Sirio is interested in how leaders' behaviors and followers' perceptions are shaped by cultural, historical, and developmental processes. He tackles this broad empirical topic, mixing traditional organizational and psychological literature with insights from other disciplines such as evolutionary-informed social sciences, cross-cultural psychology, as well as political and behavioral economics. Sirio is also interested in research methods, with a specific focus on causal analysis, experimental methods, and structural equation models. His work has been published in leading journals, including *Journal of Management*, *Journal of Operations Management*, *The Leadership Quarterly* and *Psychological Methods,* and has been presented at various conferences. Sirio is currently serving as Associate Editor and Method Advisor for *The Leadership Quarterly*. ### Areas of research - Leadership - Implicit leadership theories - Cultural evolution of leadership - Research methods ## Recent academic contributions LONATI, S., K. FRANK, J. WULFF, "What Would it Take to Change an Inference? Sensitivity Analysis to Inform Innovation in the Future [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2024, Chicago, United States LONATI, S., C. DORISON, M. JOSEFY, N. PODSAKOFF, E. TENNEY, I. VILLAMOR, D. FALCHETTI, M. ORMISTON, "Experimenting: Best Practices and Future Directions [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2024, Chicago, United States LONATI, S., Z. H. GARFIELD, N. BASTARDOZ, C. VON RUEDEN, "Leadership as an emotional process: An evolutionarily informed perspective" in *The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions*., Laith Al-Shawaf, and Todd K. Shackelford (eds), Oxford University Press, 2024 DOI : [ 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.33 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.33) ## Publications LONATI, S., M. VAN VUGT, "Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review", *The Leadership Quarterly*, April 2024, vol. 35, no. 1 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101749 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101749) LONATI, S., R. LALIVE, C. EFFERSON, "Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities", *Evolutionary Human Sciences*, January 2024, vol. 6, pp. 1-66 DOI : [ 10.1017/ehs.2023.35 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.35) LONATI, S., M. RÖNKKÖ, J. ANTONAKIS, "Normality assumption in latent interaction models", *Psychological Methods*, April 2024 DOI : [ 10.1037/met0000657 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000657) LONATI, S., J. WULFF, "Hic Sunt Dracones: On the Risks of Comparing the ITCV With Control Variable Correlations", *Journal of Management*, December 2024 DOI : [ 10.1177/01492063241293126 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01492063241293126) LONATI, S., "Raising the roots of cultural difference", *Business Impact*, February 2023 WULFF, J., G. SAJONS, G. POGREBNA, S. LONATI, N. BASTARDOZ, G. C. BANKS, J. ANTONAKIS, "Common methodological mistakes", *Leadership Quarterly*, February 2023, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 101677 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101677 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101677) LONATI, S., "What explains cultural differences in leadership styles? On the agricultural origins of participative and directive leadership", *The Leadership Quarterly*, April 2020, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 101305 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.07.003 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.07.003) LONATI, S., B. F. QUIROGA, C. ZEHNDER, J. ANTONAKIS, "On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations", *Journal of Operations Management*, November 2018, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 19-40 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.jom.2018.10.003 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2018.10.003) ## Others LONATI, S., B. F. QUIROGA, C. ZEHNDER, J. ANTONAKIS - "Replication date for: "On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations" Mendeley Data V1" - 2018 ## Chapters LONATI, S., Z. H. GARFIELD, N. BASTARDOZ, C. VON RUEDEN, "Leadership as an emotional process: An evolutionarily informed perspective" in *The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions*., Laith Al-Shawaf, and Todd K. Shackelford (eds), Oxford University Press, 2024 DOI : [ 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.33 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.33) LONATI, S., J. ANTONAKIS, "Endogeneity and endogenous theorizing" in *The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies*., George R. Goethals, Scott T Allison & Georgia J. Sorenson Eds, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 318-323, 2023 DOI : [ 10.4135/9781071840801 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071840801) LONATI, S., "Cultural differences in leadership styles" in *The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies*., George R. Goethals, Scott T Allison & Georgia J. Sorenson Eds, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 213-218, 2023 DOI : [ 10.4135/9781071840801 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781071840801) ## Conferences LONATI, S., K. FRANK, J. WULFF, "What Would it Take to Change an Inference? Sensitivity Analysis to Inform Innovation in the Future [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2024, Chicago, United States LONATI, S., C. DORISON, M. JOSEFY, N. PODSAKOFF, E. TENNEY, I. VILLAMOR, D. FALCHETTI, M. ORMISTON, "Experimenting: Best Practices and Future Directions [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2024, Chicago, United States LONATI, S., J. WULFF, "A Critical Evaluation Of The Impact Threshold Of A Confounding Variable In Management Research" in *Academy of Management*, 2023 DOI : [ 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12882abstract ](https://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12882abstract) LONATI, S., C. DORISON, M. JOSEFY, N. PODSAKOFF, E. TENNEY, I. VILLAMOR, D. FALCHETTI, S. HILL, M. ORMISTON, "Experimenting: Best Practices and Future Directions [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2023, Boston, United States LONATI, S., L. BALLESTEROS, N. BASTARDOZ, A. ZOHREHVAND, R. CONTI, T. KRETSCHMER, M. WITHERS, S. SANTONI, J. SIEWEKE, "The Methodological Frontier of Causal Inference [Professional Development Workshop]" in *Academy of Management Annual Meeting*, 2023, Boston, United States LONATI, S., N. BASTARDOZ, "Are the Verbal Charismatic Leadership Tactics Universal? An Empirical Investigation Across Cultures", *Academy of Management Proceedings*, 2022 DOI : [ 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.16101abstract ](https://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.16101abstract) LONATI, S., "Support for autocratic leadership: Context, culture, and transmission" in *Academy of Management*, 2021 LONATI, S., M. RÖNKKÖ, J. ANTONAKIS, "Violation of Distributional Assumptions in Latent Interaction Models", *Academy of Management Proceedings*, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 18911, 2020 DOI : [ 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18911abstract ](https://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18911abstract) ## Conference invitations LONATI, S. - "Behavioral Research and Experimentation in Operations Management" - 2020, Online, United States LONATI, S. - "Behavioral and experimental research in management" - 2019, Nottingham, United Kingdom ## Conference contributions LONATI, S., "The cultural origins of charisma" in *Annual Human Behavior & Evolution Society Meeting*, 2019, Boston, United States