Andrew A. Hanna

Assistant Professor | Seacrest Teaching Fellow Management University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Address: HLH 315 G
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: 402-472-3915 On-campus 2-3915
Email: ahanna3@unl.edu
Website: Google Scholar
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Office Hours

By appointment, HLH 325D | See availability via Calendly.

Andrew earned his Ph.D. in Business with an emphasis in Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2021. His research focuses on how individuals without formal positions of power come to gain influence, the cause and effects of working on concurrent teams, and latent variable methodology. His work has been published in journal outlets like Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Group & Organization Management, and Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior, as well as in publications like Lusk & Hayes's SIOP Professional Practice Series: The Good, the Bad, and the Dark Side at Work and Ford & Scandura's SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application.

Andrew is a member of the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and American Psychological Association. He has served as the head of volunteer coordination and as the track chair for the Research Methods and Innovative Teaching Division of the Southern Management Association. Currently, Andrew is member of SMA's Board of Directors, and serves as the Chair of the AOM-CARMA Research Methods Consortium for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. At UNL, he serves as a faculty fellow to the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship and as the College of Business's representative to the advisory board for the student-run news outlet, The Daily Nebraskan.

As an instructor in the UNL College of Business, Andrew has taught MNGT 360: Managing Behavior in Organizations, ENTR 421: Identifying and Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities, ENTR 321: Foundations of Entrepreneurship, ENTR 398: Applied Design Thinking for Your Life, MNGT 398: Global Startup Communities: Entrepreneurship in Rwanda, MNGT 361: Human Resource Management, and MNGT 475: Business Strategies. He has also designed and led an entrepreneurship-focused study abroad to Kigali, Rwanda where students explored the startup scene within one of Africa's fastest-growing economies.

Education

University of Nebraska
Ph.D., Business (2021)
Emphasis in Management

University of Nebraska
M.B.A. (2016)
Emphasis in Entrepreneurship

University of Nebraska
B.S.B.A., International Business (2009)
Minors in Japanese, Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

Informal/Emergent Leadership
Latent Variable Methodology

Research Interests

Informal/Emergent Leadership
Multiple Team Membership
Latent Variable Methodology
AI for Education

Appointments

Assistant Professor, 2024
Seacrest Teaching Fellow, 2023
Assistant Professor of Practice, 2021

Vita

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Scholarship

Published Works
Hanna, A.A., Smith, T.A., Kirkman, B.L., & Griffin, R.W. 2021. The emergence of emergent leadership: A comprehensive framework and directions for future research. Journal of Management, 47(1), 76-104.

Williams, L.J., Hanna, A.A., & Smith, T.A. 2025. Methods and theory for using parcels in management research: An overview and guide for improved analyses. Journal of Management, 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251316479.

Mistry, S., Kirkman, B.L., Moore, O.A., Hanna, A.A., & Rapp, T.L. 2023. Too many teams? Examining the impact of multiple team memberships and permanent team identification on employees’ identity strain, cognitive depletion, and turnover. Personnel Psychology, 76(3), 885-912.

Gardner, W.L., Hanna, A.A., Cogliser, C.C., & Noghani, F. 2024. Leadership emergence: Answering the “how” and “why” questions by considering levels of analysis and forms of emergence. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior, 11(1), 139-164.

Konno, K., & Hanna, A.A. 2025. Modeling and evaluating the impact of bias blind spots on business decisions through matrix-based graph models. Groups Decision and Negotiation, 0(0), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-025-09950-z.

Badura, K.*, Hanna, A.A.*, & Smith, T.A.* 2025. Leadership Emergence. In R. Griffin (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Management. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mackalski, R., Hanna, A.A., Simon, R., & Ducusin, M. 2025. The Bay: A Third Space for Misfits. Ivey Publishing Case Studies.

Moore, O.A., Susskind, A.M., Margolin, D., & Hanna, A.A. 2024. A resource-acquisition perspective: Examining the effects of downsizing on work-related relationships and performance. Group & Organization Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/105960112412356.

Williams, L.J. & Hanna, A.A. 2023. Exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis and scale development. In L.R. Ford & T.A. Scandura (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application. SAGE Publishing Ltd.

Griffin, R.W., Hanna, A.A., Smith, T.A., & Kirkman, B.L. 2022. How bad leaders impact organizational effectiveness. In D. Lusk & T. Hayes (Eds.), SIOP Professional Practice Series: The Good, the Bad, and the Human Dark Side at Work. Oxford University Press.

Oluwasina, D., Scutchfeld, E., Hanna, A.A., Leedom, S., & Ndejuru, T. 2022. The Entrepreneurship Program Design and Resource Toolkit: A Blueprint for Expanding Entrepreneurship Education in Central Africa. Published with support from the Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA).

Courses

Instructor of Record Courses

MNGT 360 - Managing Behavior in Organizations

MNGT 361 - Human Resource Management

MNGT 398 - International Startup Communities: Rwanda & the United States /

International Startup Communities: India & the United States /

Applied Design Thinking: Designing Your Life

MNGT 475 - Business Strategies

ENTR 421 - Identifying and Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunity

ENTR 321 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship