Research Overview
Refereed Publications:
Brändle, L., Rönnert, A., Moergen, K., Zhao, E. (2025). Social Class Origin and Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda. Journal of Business Venturing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106503
Kolomeitsev, S., Moergen, K., Ridge, J., Worrell, D., & Kuban, S. (2024). Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206323122625
Bradley, C., Moergen, K., Simon, L., & Roumpi, D. (2023). Don't just tell me, show me: Impacting perceptions of organizational attraction and fit using activating LGBT diversity signals. Personnel Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12595
Kish-Gephart, J.,* Moergen, K.,* Tilton, J., & Gray, B. (2023). Social class and work: A review and organizing framework. Journal of Management, 49(1), 509–565. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221076822
*First two authors contributed equally to the manuscript and are listed alphabetically
Moergen, K. & Kish-Gephart, J. (2023). Bringing "class" into the classroom: Addressing social class privilege through management education. Journal of Management Education, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629221126129
Blake, A., Luu, V., M., Petrenko, O., Gardner, W., Moergen, K., & Ezerins, M. E. (2022). Let’s agree about nice leaders: A literature review and meta-analysis of agreeableness and its relationship with leadership outcomes. Leadership Quarterly, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101593
Finalist for Leadership Quarterly’s 2022 Best Paper Award
Practitioner Management Articles & Book Chapters:
Hayman, M.,* Kish-Gephart, J.,* Moergen, K.* (2025). Left Behind in the #MeToo Movement: the Hidden Experience of Women in the Lower Social Classes. In A. O-Leary-Kelly & Rawski, S. (Eds). Spotlights & Shadows: What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Sexual Harassment. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003300953
*Authors contributed equally to the manuscript and are listed alphabetically
Callander, A., Moergen, K., Sullivant, R., Burley, S. (2023). Fayetteville Roots. In M. Tonelli & A. Heise (Eds). Case Studies in Arts Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209303.00011
Thomason, B., Chawla, N., Gabriel, A., Greenberg, D., Lampert, C., Moergen, K., Sumpter, D., Umphress, E. (2022). “How organizations can take a lead in protecting reproductive rights.” MIT Sloan Management Review, 64(1), 1-4. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-organizations-can-take-a-lead-in-protecting-reproductive-rights/
*Outside of the first author, authors are listed in alphabetical order
Works Under Revision and Review
Manuscript names removed to protect blind peer review
Moergen, K., Hayman, M., Cummings, M., & Pidduck, R. [Title]
Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice: Conditional Acceptance
Quan, S., Moergen, K., Lacerenza, C., & Dittmann, A. [Title]
Journal of Applied Psychology: Revising for 2nd review
Nikolaev, B.N., Lerman, M.P., Moergen, K., Mitchell, R., Boudreaux, C. [Title]
Journal of Management: Revising for 2nd review
