Scholars@Duke
Angelica Leigh

Angelica Leigh

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business

Selected Publications

An ally by any other name: Examining the effects of racial minority leaders as allies for advancing racial justice

Journal Article Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · March 1, 2024 We investigate employee evaluations of racial minority leaders who engage in allyship behaviors aimed at advancing racial equity. We argue that when racial minority leaders engage in racial allyship, perceptions of them as effective allies and leaders vary ... Full text Cite

HOW WOKE WAS THE SYMPOSIUM ON WOKE ORGANIZATIONS? AN INSIDER PERSPECTIVE

Journal Article Academy of Management Perspectives · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: MOVING BEYOND PERFORMATIVE DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TO DRIVE CHANGE

Journal Article Academy of Management Perspectives · January 1, 2024 As organizations are increasingly expressing their value for diversity and investing in efforts to create more equitable and inclusive workplaces and societies, such efforts have become scrutinized by critics.Often disparaged as being "woke," firms have be ... Full text Cite

Preventing success: How a prevention focus causes leaders to overrule good ideas and reduce team performance gains.

Journal Article The Journal of applied psychology · July 2023 We examine the effects of leader prevention focus on the leader's own behavior, in the form of the harmful overruling of good ideas by their follower team, and on the team's collective behaviors, processes, and performance. We argue that when leaders adopt ... Full text Cite

What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes

Journal Article Organization Science · March 1, 2023 Research suggests that women negotiators tend to obtain worse outcomes than men; however, we argue this finding does not apply to all women. Integrating research on social hierarchies, gender in negotiations, and intersectional stereotype content, we devel ... Full text Cite

Challenging racism as a Black police officer: An emergent theory of employee anti-racism.

Journal Article The Journal of applied psychology · February 2023 Organizations are key mechanisms by which racism is enacted and perpetuated. Although much of the management literature has focused on organizational efforts to combat racial discrimination, some of the most transformative changes come from the everyday ac ... Full text Cite

“AM I NEXT?” THE SPILLOVER EFFECTS OF MEGA-THREATS ON AVOIDANT BEHAVIORS AT WORK

Journal Article Academy of Management Journal · July 1, 2022 “Mega-threats”-negative, identity-relevant societal events that receive significant media attention-are frequent occurrences in society, yet the influence of these events on employees remains unclear. We draw on the theory of racialized organizations to ex ... Full text Cite