Books & Monographs

Refereed Journal articles

Book chapters

Non-refereed journal articles

Journalism

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Björnberg, A. & Nicholson, N. (2008). Emotional Ownership: The critical pathway between the next generation and the family firm. London: Institute for Family Business.

Gordon, G., & Nicholson, N. (2008). Family Wars: Classic conflicts in the family firm and how to deal with them. London: Kogan Page.

Nicholson, N., & Björnberg, A. (2007). Ready, Willing and Able? The next generation in family business. London: Institute for Family Business.

Nicholson, N., & White, R. (Eds.) (2006). Darwinian Perspectives on Organizational Behavior. Special Issue, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 27 (2).

Nicholson, N., & Björnberg, A. (2005). Family Business Leadership Inquiry. London: Institute for Family Business.

Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N., Soane, E., & Willman, P. (2005). Traders:  Risks, Decisions, and Management in Financial Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nicholson, N., Audia, P., & Pillutla, M. (Eds.). (2004) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management: Organizational Behavior. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Nicholson, N. (2004). Series Editor. Decision Makers. Norwich: Format.

Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N., Soane, E., & Willman, P. (2004). Traders: Risks, Decisions, and Management in Financial Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nicholson, N., & White, R. (Eds.) (in press). Darwinian Perspectives on Organizational Behavior. Special Issue, Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Nicholson, N. (2000) Executive Instinct. New York: Crown Business Books. (Managing the Human Animal. London: Texere).

Nicholson, N., & Cannon, D. (1997). The Chief Finance Officer in Top UK Companies: Caught between conflicting demands? London, Egon Zehnder International.

Jackson, C., Arnold, J., Nicholson, N. & Watts, A.G. (1996). Careers in the Year 2000 and Beyond. Brighton, Sussex: Institute of Employment Studies.

Nicholson, N. (1995) (Ed.) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior. Blackwell, Oxford (paperback edition published in 1997).

Greif, S., Holling, H. and Nicholson, N. (Eds.) (1989 & 1995). Arbeits und Organisations psychologie: Internationales Handbuch in Schlusselbegriffen (Work and Organizational Psychology: An International Handbook of Key Concepts). First & Second Editions Psychologie Verlags Union, Munchen.

Nicholson, N. and West, M.A. (1988). Managerial Job Change: Men and Women In Transition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Hartley, J.F., Kelly, J.E. and Nicholson, N. (1983). Steel Strike. Batsford, London.

Chadwick Jones, J.K., Nicholson, N. and Brown, C.A. (1982). The Social Psychology of Absenteeism. Praeger, NY.

Nicholson, N. and Wall, T.D. (Eds.) (1982). Essays in the Theory and Practice of Organisational Psychology. Academic Press, London.

Nicholson, N., Ursell, G. and Blyton, P. (1981). The Dynamics of White Collar Unionism. Academic Press, London.

Warr, P.B., Fineman, S., Nicholson, N. and Payne, R.L. (1978). Developing Employee Relations. Teakfield, Farnborough.

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Refereed Journal articles: 

Nicholson, N. (2008).  Evolutionary psychology, corporate culture and family business. Academy of Management Perspectives, 22, 73-84. 

Nicholson, N. (2008).  Evolutionary psychology and family business:  A new synthesis for theory, research and practice. Family Business Review, 21: 103-118.

Björnberg, A., & Nicholson, N. (2007). The family climate scales: development of a new measure for use in family business research. Family Business Review, 20, 229-246.

Willman, P., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N., & Soane, E. (2006). Noise trading and the management of operational risk; Firms, traders and irrationality in financial markets. Journal of Management Studies, 43: 1357-1374.

Nicholson, N. (2005). Meeting the Maasai: Messages for management. Journal of Management Inquiry, in press.

Nicholson, N. (2005). Objections to evolutionary psychology: Reflections, implications and the leadership exemplar. Human Relations, in press.

Nicholson, N., & De Waal Andrews, W. (2005) Playing To Win: Biological imperatives, self-regulation and trade-offs in the game of career success. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26: 137-154.

Nicholson, N., Soane, E., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., & Willman, P. (2005). Personality and domain-specific risk taking. Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 8: 157-176.

Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N., Soane, E. and Willman, P. (2003). Trading on illusions: unrealistic perceptions of controls and trading performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 76: 53-68.

Franke, J., & Nicholson, N. (2002). Who shall we send? Cultural and other influences on the rating of selection criteria for expatriate assignments. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 2: 21-36.

Willman, P., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N. and Soane, E. (2001). Knowing the Risks; theory and practice in financial markets. Human Relations, Vol.54: 887-910.

Willman, P., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N. and Soane, E. (2001). Traders, managers and loss aversion in investment banking: A field study. Accounting, Organisations and Society, Volume 27: 85-98.

Harvey, J., & Nicholson, N. (1999). Minor illness as a legitimate reason for absence. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20: 979-994.

Nicholson, N. (1998). Seven deadly syndromes of management and organization: The view from evolutionary psychology. Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol.19: 411-426.

Nicholson, N. (1997). Evolutionary psychology: Toward a new view of human nature and organizational society. Human Relations, Vol.50, 1053-1078.

Nicholson, N. (1996) Towards a new agenda for work and personality: Traits, self-identity, "strong" interactionism and change. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 45: 189-205.

Nicholson, N. & Robertson, D.C. (1996). The ethical issue emphasis of companies: Content, patterning and influences. Human Relations, Vol.49, 1367-1394.

Robertson, D.C. & Nicholson, N. (1996). Expressions of corporate social responsibility in U.K. firms. Journal of Business Ethics, 15: 1095-1996.

Nicholson, N. (1995). The moral order of the organization: Issues for theory and research. Organization, Vol. 2, 339-344.

Nicholson, N.(1994) "Ethics in organizations: a framework for theory and research", Journal of Business Ethics, 13: 581-596.

Nicholson, N., Brenner, S.O. (1994). "Dimensions of Perceived Organisational Performance - Tests of a Model" Applied Psychology : An International Review, 43, No.1, 89-108.

Nicholson, N. (1993). "Absence : There and Back Again" Journal of Organisational Behaviour, 14, No.3, 288-291.

Nicholson, N. & Imaizumi, A. (1993). "The Adjustment of Japanese Expatriates to Living and Working in Britain", British Journal of Management, 4 119-134.

Nicholson, N. (1993) "Purgatory or Place of Safety? The Managerial Plateau and Organisational Agegrading", Human Relations, 46, No.12, 1369-1389.

Harvey, J. & Nicholson, N. (1993). "Incentives and Penalties as Means of Influencing Attendance", International Journal of Human Resource Management, 4:4, 841-858.

Nicholson, N. and Arnold, J. (1991). From expectation to experience: Graduates entering a large corporation. Journal of Organizational Behaviour 12, 413-429

West, M.A., Nicholson, N. and Rees, A. (1990). The outcomes of downward managerial mobility. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 11, 119 134.

Nicholson, N., Rees, A. and Brooks Rooney, A. (1990). Strategy, innovation and performance. Journal of Management Studies, 27, 511-534. (also translated into Hungarian)

Nicholson, N. and Arnold, J. (1990). Construing of self and others at work in the early years of corporate careers. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 12, 621-639.

West, M.A. and Nicholson, N. (1989). The outcomes of job change. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 34, 335 349.

Nicholson, N. (1987). The transition cycle: A conceptual framework for the analysis of change and human resource management. In J. Ferris and K.M. Rowland (eds.), Personal and Human Resources Management, Volume 5. JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.
Reprinted in J. Ferris & K. Rowland (eds) Career and Human Resources Management JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1990.

Nicholson, N. and Payne, R.L. (1987). Absence from work: Explanations and attributions. International Review of Applied Psychology, 36, 121 132.

West, M.A., Nicholson, N. and Rees, A. (1987). Transitions into newly created jobs. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 60, 97 113.

Nicholson, N. and Johns, G. (1985). The absence culture and the psychological contract: Who's in control of absence? Academy of Management Review, 10, 397 407.
Reprinted in R.M. Steers & L.M. Porter (eds) Motivation and Work Behaviour 4th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1987.

Nicholson, N., West, M.A. and Cawsey, T.F. (1985). Future uncertain: Expected vs attained job change among managers. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 58, 313 320.

Nicholson, N. (1984). A theory of work role transitions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 29 (2), 172 191

Johns, G. and Nicholson, N. (1982). The meanings of absence: New strategies for theory and research. In B. Staw and L.L. Cummings (Eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 4. JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.
Reprinted in L L Cummings & B M Staw (Eds.) (1990) Evaluation and Employment in Organizations, JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.

Kelly, J.E. and Nicholson, N. (1981). The causation of strikes: A review of theoretical approaches and the potential contribution of social psychology. Human Relations, 33, 853 883.

Nicholson, N., Ursell, G. and Lubbock, J.S. (1981). Membership participation in a white collar union. Industrial Relations, 20, 162 178.

Nicholson, N. and Kelly, J.E. (1980). The psychology of strikes. Journal of Occupational Behaviour, 1, 275 284.

Nicholson, N., Ursell, G. and Blyton, P.R. (1980). Social background, attitudes and behaviour of white collar shop stewards. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 18, 231 239.

Nicholson, N. (1977). Absence behaviour and attendance motivation: A conceptual synthesis. Journal of Management Studies, 14, 231 252.

Nicholson, N., Brown, C.A. and Chadwick Jones, J.K. (1977). Absence from work and personal characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology, 62, 319 327.

Nicholson, N., Brown, C.A. and Chadwick Jones, J.K. (1976). Absence from work and job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 61, 728 737.

Chadwick Jones, J.K., Brown, C.A., Nicholson, N. and Sheppard, C. (1971). Absence measures: Their reliability and stability in an industrial setting. Personnel Psychology, 24, 463 470.

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Book chapters: (since 1997)

Nicholson, N. & Björnberg, A., (2008).  The shape of things to come:  Emotional ownership and the next generation in the family firm.  In J. Tàpies & J.L. Ward (eds.), Family Values and Value Creation.  London: Palgrave Macmillan

Nicholson, N., & Narayanan, J. (2008).  Evolutionary theory.  In J. R. Bailey & S.S. Clegg (eds.) International Encylopedia of Organization Studies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Soane, E., & Nicholson, N. (2008).  Individual differences and decision making.  In G. Hodgkinson & W. Starbuck (eds.), Handbook of Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.HHaHH

Nicholson, N. (2007).  The Getting of Wisdom:  Self-conduct, personal identity and wisdom across the life-span.  In E.H. Kessler & J.R. Bailey, J.R. (eds.) 2007.  Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. (pp. 377-397) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Nicholson, N. (2006).  Destiny, drama and deliberation: Careers in the co-evolution of lives and societies.  In H. Gunz & M.A. Peiperl (eds.) Handbook of Career Studies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Nicholson, N. (2006).  Organization as Nature Intended - Human universals and the employment experience.  In R. Gandossy (ed.), Five Unstoppable Workforce Trends. New York: Wiley.

Nicholson, N. and Björnberg, A. (2006).  Critical leader  relationships in family firms.  In P.Z. Poutziouris, K.X. Smyrnios, & S.B. Klein (eds.), Handbook of Research on Family Business.  Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

13 Entries for Encylopedia of Management: Organizational Behavior, on "Achievement, need for"; "Affiliation, need for"; "Altruism"; "Authoritarian personality"; "Burnout"; "Career"; "Career plateau"; "Enactment"; "Evolutionary psychology"; "Family firms"; "Hardiness"; "Power, need for"; "Self-regulation" (with Ginka Toegel).

Nicholson, N., and Björnberg, Å. (2004). Evolutionary psychology and the family firm: structure, culture and performance. In S. Tomaselli & L. Melin (Eds.), Family Firms in the Wind of Change. Research Forum Proceedings, IFERA, Lausanne.

Rees, A. & Nicholson, N. (2004). The Twenty Statements Test. In C. Cassell & G. Symon (Eds.), Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research. London : Sage Publications.

Nicholson, N. (2002). What stays the same. In Subir Chowdhury (Ed.) Organization 21C. New York: Financial Times & Prentice Hall.

Nicholson, N. (2001). An evolutionary perspective on change and stability in personality, culture and organization. In M. Erez, U. Kleinbeck, & H. Thierry (eds.). Work Motivation in the Context of Globalizing Economy. Elsevier.

Nicholson, N. (2000) Motivation-Selection-Connection: An Evolutionary Model of Career Development. In M. Peiperl, M. Arthur, R. Goffee, and T.Morris (eds.). Career Frontiers: New concepts of working life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nicholson, N. (2000). Modelling withdrawal - Theoretical, empirical and methodological Implications. In D. Ilgen & C. Hulin (eds.) Computational Modeling of Behavioral Processes in Organizations. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Soane, E., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N., & Willman, P. (1998). Psychological theory and financial institutions. In R. Jameson (ed.), Operational Risk and Financial Institutions. London: Risk Books.

Nicholson, N. (1997). Hunter-gatherers of the organisation: Evolutionary psychology, feelings at work and the limits to change. In F. Avallone, J.Arnold & K. de Witte (eds.). Feelings Work in Europe. Milan: Guerini Studio.

Nicholson, N. (1997). The changing nature of careers. In Y. Altman (ed.), Careers in the New Millennium: Causes, challenges and consequences. Leuven: Acco.

Nicholson, N. (1997). Evolutionary psychology and organizational behaviour. In C.L. Cooper & S. Jackson, (eds.) Creating Tomorrow's Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behavior. Chichester: Wiley.

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Non-refereed journal articles: (since 1997)

Nicholson, N. (2008). Succession for Success.  Business Executive.

Nicholson, N. (2008).  Blood ties.  Management Today, March, 53-60.

Nicholson, N., and Björnberg, A. (2004).  Familiness:  Fatal flaw or inimitable advantage?  Families in Business, March, 52-54.

Nicholson, N. (2003). How to motivate your problem people. Harvard Business Review,Volume 81, January, 56-67.

Nicholson, N. (2001). The new word on gossip. Psychology Today. June, pp. 41-45.

Soane, E. and Nicholson, N. (2000). Are traders rational? Foreign Exchange and Money Markets July, p. 17-20.

Nicholson, N., and Cannon, D.C. (2000). Two views from the bridge. How CFOs and SME leaders perceive top team dynamics. European Management Journal, Volume 18, 367-376.

Nicholson, N. (1998). Personality and entrepreneurial leadership: A study of the heads of the UK's most successful independent companies. European Management Journal, Vol.16, 529-539.

Nicholson, N. (1998). How hardwired is human behavior? Harvard Business Review, Vol. 76 (no.4, July/August), 134-147.

Baruch, Y. & Nicholson, N. (1997). Home, sweet work. Journal of General Management, Vol. 23 (2), 15-30.

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Journalism: (since 2000)

Nicholson, N. (2007).  The secret of managing without powerJanuary 9th .

Nicholson, N. (2006).  Turning family business into a winning unit.  Times of India, November 28th

Columns for Families in Business (2004-2005) and for.Times of India (2006-2007) .

Nicholson, N. (2004-2005). Small business "agony uncle". BBC News Online, various.

Nicholson, N. (2004). Culture: Don't reach for your gun. Families in Business, January/February, p.80.

Nicholson, N., and Björnberg, Å. (2004). Familiness: Fatal flaw or inimitable advantage? Families in Business, March.

Nicholson, N. (2004). Leadership in family business: The what, who and how. Families in Business, November/December, p.49.

Nicholson, N. (2003). Family business: Promises and pitfalls. Family Business, Vol. 11(1): p.3.

Nicholson, N. (2002). Beyond the gene lottery - leadership in family firms. Families in Business, April, p. 10-11.

Nicholson, N. (2002). What lies at the root of roguery. Financial Times, March 5, p.15.

Nicholson, N. (2001). Jazz up your workers. The Observer newspaper. Business section, August 29, p.9.

Nicholson, N. (2001). How to run your boss. The Observer newspaper. Business section, June 10, p.9.

Nicholson, N. (2001). Gene politics and the natural selection of leadership. Leader to Leader. No. 20, Spring, pp. 46-52.

Nicholson, N., & Willman, P. (2000). Folly, fantasy and roguery - A social psychology of finance risk disasters. Financial Times, June 12. Reprinted in J. Pickford (ed.) (2001) Mastering Risk: Volume 1: Concepts. Harlow: Pearson, pp. 241-246.

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