Her focus is management, business and she has authored papers specializing in employment relationship, leadership, psychological contracts, and person-environment fit theory.
In 2022 Lambert was named co-editor of the journal Organizational Research Methods.
[1][2] In 2018 she moved to Oklahoma State University, and she was named the William S. Spears Chair of Business in 2021.
[3] Starting January 2022 Lambert was named the co-editor of the journal Organizational Research Methods which makes, and her co-editor Tine Köhler, the first female scholars to lead the journal, which is published on behalf of the Academy of Management.
[9] In 2013 Lambert received the Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award[10] for her 2007 paper published with Jeffrey Edwards.