We always publish NewsArticles in the column of our company and label the author an Organization whose name is the company.
If a news website invites us to be the guest author or reposts our article, but they label the author a Person, what would be the effect?
Could the search engine identify that we are the author through the article content and the name of the author? What should we be worried about?
I would say the only negative here would be what Tony McCreath brought up, it would make another step for Google to connect the dots versus directly attributing it as an author. If you check out author schema's page, it's pretty obvious that author is just an additional identifier and it the Person entity is the main idea.
I could be very wrong about this, but I did some research to try to find a better answer and could not come up with anything that was of worth.