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Elizabeth A. Mannix

Elizabeth A. Mannix

Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Management
PhD, University of Chicago

Professor Mannix's research and teaching interests include: Effective performance in managerial teams, diversity in organizations and teams, power and alliances, negotiation and conflict, and organizational change and renewal. Recently, she has been studying the effects of informal power in teams, and the multi-faceted effects of diversity on performance in organizational groups.

Professor Mannix's work has been published in such journals as: Administrative Science Quarterly, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Academy of Management Journal. She is the co-editor of the book series Research on Managing Groups and Teams, now in its 11th volume. Professor Mannix was the Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences from 2005-2008, established to promote interdisciplinary research and to increase the University's prominence in the Social Sciences. She recently served as the Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion (2008-09). Professor Mannix is the winner of the inaugural EMBA Globe teaching award (2001), as well as the Johnson School's Faculty Research Award (2008).

Professor Mannix's vita

Cornell's Commitment to Diversity

Institute for the Social Sciences

2009 Research on Managing Groups and Teams Conference


Selected Publications and Working Papers

Burris, E., Rodgers, M., Mannix, E., Hendron, M, & Oldroyd, M. Playing Favorites: The Influence of Leaders' Inner Circle on Group Processes and Performance, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, in press.

Lee, S. Adair, W. & Mannix, E. The Relational Versus Collective "We" and Intergroup Allocation Decisions (2009). Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management, August.

Greer, L., Jehn, K., & Mannix, E. (2008). Conflict Transformation: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relationships between Different Types of Intragroup Conflict and the Moderating Role of Conflict Resolution, Small Group Research, 39 (3), 278-302

Neale, M., Mannix, E., & Phillips, K., (Eds.). (2008). Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Diversity and Groups, vol. 11. Bingley, UK: JAI Emerald.

Behfar, K. Peterson, R., Mannix, E., & Trochim, W., (2008). Conflict resolution strategies in autonomous work groups: Identifying process indicators associated with group viability, Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 170-188.

Mannix, E., Neale, M., and Tenbrunsel, A. (Eds.). (2006). Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Ethics in Groups, vol 8. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science Press.

Mannix, E. and Sauer, S. (2006). "Status and Power in Organizational Group Research: Acknowledging the Pervasiveness of Hierarchy." In S. Thye & E. Lawler (Eds.) Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of the Workplace (23), p. 149-182.

Mannix, E. and Neale, M (2005). "What differences make a difference? The promise and reality of diverse teams in organizations." Psychology in the Public Interest, 6(2), 31-55. (Abbreviated version reprinted in Scientific American, August, 2006, 32-40).

Lovaglia, M., Mannix, E., Samuelson, C., Sell, J., & Wilson, R. (2004). "Conflict, power and status in groups." In M. S. Poole & A. B. Hollingshead (Eds). Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Mannix, E. and K. A. Jehn (2004). "Let's Storm and Norm, but Not Right Now: Investigating Models of Group Development and Performance" in Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Temporal Issues. Oxford: Elsevier Science Press. 6.

Phillips, K., E. Mannix, M. Neale and D. H. Gruenfeld (2004). "Diverse Groups and Information Sharing: The Effects of Congruent Ties." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 40: 497-510.

Sell, J., M. Lovaglia, E. Mannix, C. Samuelson and R. Wilson (2004). "Investigating Conflict, Power, and Status within and among Groups." Small Group Research 35(1): 44-72.

Bayazit, M. and E. Mannix (2003). "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Predicting Team Members' Intent to Remain in the Team." Small Group Research 34(3): 290-321.

Chen, Y. R., E. A. Mannix and T. Okumura (2003). "The Importance of Who You Meet: Effects of Self- Versus Other- Concerns among Negotiators in the United States, the People's Republic of China, and Japan." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 39(1): 1-15.

Griffith, T., E. Mannix and M. Neale (2003). "Conflict & Virtual Teams" in Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions For Virtual Team Effectiveness. C. B. Gibson and S. G. Cohen, Eds. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.


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