Research

Organizational change is constant, and employees' work arrangements are no exception. As organizations continue to flatten and organize work around projects, being assigned to multiple teams and reporting to multiple direct supervisors has become the norm for the majority of workers. 

My research examines leadership and followership dynamics in complex team arrangements. In particular, my work focuses on the increasingly common experience of reporting to more than one direct supervisor and often simultaneously serving on multiple project teams. My research agenda comprises two primary streams: 1) leadership and followership dynamics, and 2) the influence of complex team arrangements on employees’ attitudes and work behaviors. 

My passion for research has been recognized with multiple academic fellowships and awards, including the 2026 Academy of Management Human Resources Division Dissertation Proposal Award.  

Research Interest: Dual-leadership; Multiple Team Membership; Research Methods

Zivic, D. C., Guarana, C., Smith, T., Nugent, M., & Chen, G. (Conditionally Accepted). Who do Employees Follow? An Analysis of Contrasting and Compensatory Effects Between Abusive Supervisors in Multiple Team Membership Contexts. Journal of Applied Psychology.

O’Boyle, E. H., Götz, M., & Zivic, D. C. (2024). Increasing the practical relevance of management research: In honor of Timothy T. Baldwin. Business Horizons, 67(2), 161-171. 

O’Boyle, E. H., Götz, M., & Zivic, D. C. (2023). Gone Fishin’: Addressing Completeness, Accuracy, and Representativeness in the Search and Coding Processes of Meta-Analyses in the Organizational Sciences. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(4), 723-742. 

Zivic, D. C., Nugent, M., Rapp, T., Margolis, J., Moore, O., O’Boyle, E. H., & Mistry, S. Topic: A Meta-Analysis on Multiple Team Membership. 1st round of Revise and Resubmit. Personnel Psychology. 

Guarana, C. L., Hernandez, M., Rothman, N., & Zivic, D. C. Topic: Follower subjective ambivalence. 1st round of Revise and Resubmit. Journal of Applied Psychology. 

Zivic, D. C., Reid, S., Smith, T., Courtright, S., & Krause, R. Topic: Dual Formal Leadership. Under Review. Journal of Management.

O’Boyle, E. H., Götz, M., Anglin, A., Allen, J., Stevenson, R., & Zivic, D. C. Topic: Multiverse Analysis and Entrepreneurship Theory. Under Review. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Romney, A., Bolinger, A., Harrison, J., Bingham, J., & Zivic, D. C. Topic: Ideological Commitment to Learning. Under Review. Journal of Management Education.