Research & Publications

My research addresses questions at the intersection of three domains of organizational scholarship: (1) Individual Learning, Development, and Growth at Work, (2) Workplace Interactions and Interpersonal Dynamics, and (3) Leading Highly Reliable Health Care Organizations.

Specifically, my research seeks to uncover and test the mechanisms by which individuals learn and develop from their own and others’ experiences in knowledge-intensive work environments such as health care. To do so, I leverage a range of quantitative and qualitative methods and data sources – including field surveys and interventions, qualitative interviews and observational methods, archival data, experiments, and social network methods – and draw from multiple literatures and levels of analysis to examine these interpersonal learning interactions.

Foundational to my research is connecting ideas from different disciplines or traditions. I believe the most interesting organizational problems – and their solutions – are interdisciplinary in nature, so I seek out areas of connection between different streams of research, aiming to offer more nuanced and robust understanding of interpersonal learning processes in health care and other knowledge work.

Publications

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Academic Journal Articles

Manipulation in Organizational Research: On Executing and Interpreting Designs from Treatments to Primes

Kira Schabram, Christopher G Myers, Ashley E Hardin

Organizational Research Methods, 2025

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Supporting Robust Teamwork - Bridging Technology and Organizational Science

Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, J. Bucuvalas, Sandy Feng, Courtney E Juliano

New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 388(22), 2023 Jun, pp. 2019-2021

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High Reliability Organising in Healthcare: Still a Long Way Left to Go

Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

BMJ Quality & Safety, vol. 31(12), 2022 Dec, pp. 845-848

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The Growing Role of Chief Medical Officers in Major Corporations.

Christopher G. Myers, Daniel Polsky, Sanjay Desai

JAMA Health Forum, vol. 3(7), 2022 Jul, pp. e222194

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Storytelling as a Tool for Vicarious Learning among Air Medical Transport Crews

Christopher G. Myers

Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 67(2), 2022 Jun, pp. 378-422

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Against the Odds: Developing Underdog versus Favorite Narratives to Offset Prior Experiences of Discrimination

Samir Nurmohamed, Timothy G Kundro, Christopher G. Myers

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 167, 2021 Nov, pp. 206-221

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The Conceptual and Empirical Value of a Positive Lens: An Invitation to Organizational Scholars to Develop Novel Research Questions

Gretchen Spreitzer, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, David M. Mayer

Academy of Management Perspectives, vol. 35(3), 2021 Aug, pp. 517-534

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Organizational Science and Health Care

Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

Academy of Management Annals, vol. 15(2), 2021 Jul, pp. 537-576

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Prioritising Surgical Cases Deferred by the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethics-inspired Algorithmic Framework for Health Leaders

Amit Jain, Tinglong Dai, Christopher G. Myers, Punya Jain, Shruti Aggarwal

BMJ Leader, vol. 5(2), 2021 Jun, pp. 124-126

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Performance Benefits of Reciprocal Vicarious Learning in Teams

Christopher G. Myers

Academy of Management Journal, vol. 64(3), 2021 Jun, pp. 926-947

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What a Pandemic Reveals About Learning in Health Care Organizations

Christopher G. Myers, Michael A. Rosen, Christina T. Yuan

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 14(1-2), 2021 Jun, pp. 126-129

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Covid-19 has Made Clear Why All Physicians Need to Know About the Business of Healthcare

Christopher G. Myers, Anna T. Mayo, Allen Kachalia, Daniel Polsky, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, vol. 26(2), 2021 Apr, pp. 51-55

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How Did You Do That? Exploring the Motivation to Learn from Others’ Exceptional Success

Ryan W. Quinn, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, Stefanie Simmons

Academy of Management Discoveries, vol. 7(1), 2021 Mar, pp. 15-39

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Working Toward the Triple Bottom Line in Surgery

Emily Johnson, Gifty Kwakye, Christopher G. Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi

NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, 2021 Jan

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Vicarious Learning in the Time of Coronavirus

Christopher G. Myers

Behavioral Science & Policy, vol. 6(2), 2020 Oct, pp. 153-161

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Gender Bias in Collaborative Medical Decision Making: Emergent Evidence

Erik G. Helzer, Christopher G. Myers, Christine Fahim, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, James H. Abernathy

Academic Medicine, vol. 95(10), 2020 Oct, pp. 1524-1528

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Resilience in Action: Leading for Resilience in Response to COVID-19

Michelle A. Barton, Marlys K. Christianson, Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

BMJ Leader, vol. 4(3), 2020 Sep, pp. 117-119

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The genealogy of teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic skill: the GEL Study

Stephen W. Russell, Sanjay V. Desai, Paul O'Rourke, Neera Ahuja, Anand Patel, Christopher G. Myers, Donna M. Zulman, Heather F. Sateia, Gail V. Berkenblit, Erica N. Johnson, Brian T. Garibaldi

Diagnosis, vol. 7(3), 2020 Aug, pp. 197-203

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Treating the "Not-Invented-Here Syndrome" in Medical Leadership: Learning From the Insights of Outside Disciplines.

Christopher G. Myers, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Bernard T. Ferrari

Academic Medicine, vol. 94(10), 2019 Oct, pp. 1416-1418

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Association Between Team Learning Behavior and Reduced Burnout Among Medicine Residents

Christopher G. Myers, Heather F. Sateia, Sanjay V. Desai

Journal of General Internal Medicine, vol. 33(12), 2018 Dec, pp. 2037-2039

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Excising the “Surgeon Ego” to Accelerate Progress in the Culture of Surgery

Christopher G. Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi

BMJ, vol. 363, 2018 Nov, pp. k4537

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Coactive Vicarious Learning: Toward a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations

Christopher G. Myers

Academy of Management Review, vol. 43(4), 2018 Oct, pp. 610-634

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Social Media as a Platform for Surgical Learning: Use and Engagement Patterns Among Robotic Surgeons

Christopher G. Myers, Omar Y. Kudsi, Amir A. Ghaferi

Annals of Surgery, vol. 267(2), 2018 Feb, pp. 233-235

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Incorporating Interpersonal Skills into Otolaryngology Resident Selection and Training

Yemeng Lu-Myers, Christopher G. Myers

Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, vol. 158(1), 2018 Jan, pp. 21-23

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Making Management Skills a Core Component of Medical Education.

Christopher G. Myers, Peter J. Pronovost

Academic Medicine, vol. 92(5), 2017 May, pp. 582-584

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Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact

Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, Leigh P. Tost

Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 101(5), 2016 May, pp. 721-730

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Where in the World Are the Workers? Cultural Underrepresentation in I-O Research

Christopher G. Myers

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 9(1), 2016 Mar, pp. 144-152

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The Relational Nature of Leadership Identity Construction: How and When It Influences Perceived Leadership and Decision-Making

Lisa A. Marchiondo, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman

Leadership Quarterly, vol. 26(5), 2015 Oct, pp. 892-908

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Learning Agility: In Search of Conceptual Clarity and Theoretical Grounding

D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, Christopher G. Myers

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5(3), 2012 Sep, pp. 258-279

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Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward

D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, Christopher G. Myers

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5(3), 2012 Sep, pp. 316-322

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The Hierarchical Face: Higher Rankings Lead to Less Cooperative Looks

Patricia Chen, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman, Stephen M. Garcia

Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 97(2), 2012 Mar, pp. 479-486

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Academic Journal Correspondence

Safety of Health Care in the Inpatient Setting

Christopher G. Myers, Keith E. Mandel, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 388(16), 2023 Apr, pp. 1535-1536

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Comment on Kunzler et al. (2022) 'Interventions to foster resilience in nursing staff: A systematic review and meta-analyses of pre-pandemic evidence'.

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Anna T. Mayo, Christopher G. Myers, Michelle A. Barton, Sarah L. Szanton

International Journal of Nursing Studies, vol. 138, 2023 Feb, p. 104393

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Responding to the “Surgeon Ego”: Progress Made and Paths Forward

Christopher G. Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, Amir A. Ghaferi

BMJ, 2018 Dec

Response Article

In Reply to Khoo and Teo

Christopher G. Myers, Peter J. Pronovost

Academic Medicine, vol. 93(4), 2018 Apr, p. 517

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Chapters in Edited Volumes

Agency in Vicarious Learning at Work

Christopher G. Myers, D. Scott DeRue

SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series, Jill E. Ellington, Raymond A. Noe, Autonomous Learning in the Workplace, chapter 2, Routledge, New York, 2017, pp. 15-37

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