Research

Publications

Journal articles

1. Lonati, S., & Wulff, J. (2024). Hic Sunt Dracones: On the Risks of Comparing the ITCV With Control Variable Correlations. Journal of Management [open access version | data & code]

2. Lonati, S., Rönkkö, M., & Antonakis, J. (2024). Normality assumption in latent interaction models. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication [published version | data & code]

3. Lonati S., Lalive, R., & Efferson, C. (2024). Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, e9. doi:10.1017/ehs.2023.35 [published version]

4. Lonati, S., & Van Vugt, M. (2023). Ecology, culture and leadership: Theoretical integration and review. The Leadership Quarterly, 101749 [published version]

5. Antonakis, J., Dessi, R., Fischer, T., Foss, N., Haslam, S. A., Kvaløy, O., Lonati, S., Muthukrishna, M., & Schöttner, A. (2023). Theory in leadership and management. The Leadership Quarterly, 101736 [published version]

6. Wulff, J. N., Sajons, G. B., Pogrebna, G., Lonati, S., Bastardoz, N., Banks, G. C., & Antonakis, J. (2023). Common methodological mistakes. The Leadership Quarterly, 34(1), 101677  [published version]

7. Lonati, S. (2020). What explains cultural differences in leadership styles? On the agricultural origins of participative and directive leadership. The Leadership Quarterly (Special Issue: “The evolution and biology of leadership: A new synthesis” edited by M. van Vugt, and C. von Rueden) 31(2), 101305. [published version]

8. Lonati, S., Quiroga, B. F., Zehnder, C., & Antonakis, J. (2018). On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations. Journal of Operations Management 64, 19-40. [published version | ungated version | data & code]

Book chapters

1. Lonati, S., Garfield, Z. H., Bastardoz, Z., & von Rueden, C. (2024). Leadership as an emotional process: An evolutionarily informed perspective. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions [published version]

2. Lonati, S., & Antonakis, J. (2023). Endogeneity and endogenous theorizing. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 319-322). SAGE Publications, Inc. [published version]

3. Lonati, S. (2023). Cultural differences in leadership styles. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 214-218). SAGE Publications, Inc.  [published version]

Conference proceedings

1. Lonati, S. & Wulff, J. N. (2023). A Critical Evaluation Of The Impact Threshold Of A Confounding Variable In Management Research. Academy of Management Proceedings. [link]

2. Lonati, S. & Bastardoz N. (2022). Are the Verbal Charismatic Leadership Tactics Universal? An Empirical Investigation Across Cultures. Academy of Management Proceedings. [link]

3. Lonati, S. (2021). Support for autocratic leadership: Context, culture, and transmission. Academy of Management Proceedings. [link]

4. Lonati, S., Rönkkö, M., & Antonakis, J. (July 2020). Violation of distributional assumptions in latent interaction models. Academy of Management Proceedings. [link]

PhD dissertation

Lonati, S. (2020). Contributions to Establishing Causality in Management Studies: Three Essays on Experimental methods, latent Moderated Models and the Origins of Organizational Leadership. [video | presentation]
Dissertation committee: Prof. John Antonakis (supervisor), Prof. Christian Zehnder (co-supervisor), Prof. Charles Efferson (internal expert), Prof. Jeffrey Edwards, University of North Carolina (external expert), Prof. Mikko Rönkkö, Jyväskylä University (external expert). Dissertation winner of the Faculty Prize: https://news.unil.ch/display/1605270351254

Other publications

Lonati, S. Raising the roots of cultural differences, Business Impact [Feb 2023, link]