Jordan Nielsen
Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
28
Citations
541
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
22
Publishing since 2005
Jordan Nielsen studies how people experience work, focusing on topics like finding meaning and calling in one's job, entrepreneurial identity, team and person-group fit, and how workplace stress and personality interact. Much of this research draws on organizational psychology methods, including scale development and meta-analysis, to understand employee well-being and career experiences. The work is aimed at understanding why people find (or lose) satisfaction and purpose in their work and how organizations shape those experiences.
Publication output has been relatively steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 2 and 5 papers per year without a clear long-term upward or downward trend.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Research on Meaningful Work: Planting the Seeds for the Future
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024
- Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance
Journal of Vocational Behavior · 2024
- When old and new selves collide: Identity conflict and entrepreneurial nostalgia among ex‐entrepreneurs
Personnel Psychology · 2023
- Advancing Research on Workplace Experiences of Persons with a Disability
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2023
- The Dynamics of Work Orientations: An Updated Typology and Agenda for the Study of Jobs, Careers, and Callings
Academy of Management Annals · 2022
- For Better <i>and</i> Worse: How Proactive Personality Alters the Strain Responses to Challenge and Hindrance Stressors
Organization Science · 2022
- Bringing Compassion into Business: The Role of Self/Other Compassion in Organizational Relationships
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2022
- It’s Not Always Sunny in Relationally Rich Jobs: The Influence of Negative Beneficiary Contact
Academy of Management Journal · 2021
- Nascent Entrepreneurial Behavior Scale
PsycTESTS Dataset · 2021
- Stories of Calling: How Called Professionals Construct Narrative Identities
Administrative Science Quarterly · 2020
- Awakening the entrepreneur within: Entrepreneurial identity aspiration and the role of displacing work events.
Journal of Applied Psychology · 2020
- The moderating role of calling in the work–family interface: Buffering and substitution effects on employee satisfaction
Journal of Organizational Behavior · 2020
- Examining the Threatened Manager: Effects of and Responses to Leader Identity Threat
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2020
- It's not always sunny in relationally rich jobs
2019
- It's Not Always Sunny in Relationally Rich Jobs: The Influence of Negative Beneficiary Contact
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2019
- Academy of Management Proceedings×9
- Personnel Psychology×2
- Academy of Management Journal×2
- PsycTESTS Dataset×2
- Administrative Science Quarterly×1
- Lusi Wu
Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Erik Gonzalez‐Mulé
Business, Management and Accounting · Indiana University
- Ernest H. O’Boyle
Business, Management and Accounting · Indiana University
- Bradley J. Alge
Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jia Hu
Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University
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