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Mario Fernando

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Aug 2026

Enjoying rivals' pain: conceptualizing schadenfreude in strategic leadership through organizational identity and social comparison

Although empathy is commonly viewed as a key element of strategic leadership, leaders' emotional reactions to competitors can also involve schadenfreude, the pleasure derived from a rival's failure, which starkly contrasts with genuine empathetic concern. This conceptual paper examines the underexplored phenomenon...

D. M. Sachinthanee Dissanayake, Mario Fernando, K. Biswas · 0 citations

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