Shady Strategic Behavior: Recognizing Strategic Followership of Dark Triad Followers

The importance of strategic behavior in organizations has long been recognized. However, so far the literature has primarily focused on leaders’ strategic behavior, largely ignoring followers’ strategic behavior. In this paper, we take a follower trait perspective on strategic follower behavior, specifically focusing on how followers’ dark triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) influence their strategic behavior. We...