Invitation til Research Paper Series #3 (CBS Leadership)

22/09/2022, at 12:30-15:00, DH V.2.70-71 (Dalgas Have)
Deadline for registration: 15/09/2022 

INTRODUCTION

The Leadership Research Paper Series is a part of the CBS Leadership initiative that aims at making CBS the Nordic center for leadership knowledge, research and education – connecting academia and practitioners from both the private and the public sector. The Paper Series is a forum for junior and senior colleagues, as well as visiting and guest scholars, to present and discuss leadership research in progress from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical traditions. Presenters will receive constructive feedback from discussants and attendees with the aim of developing their papers and arguments for eventual publication. The Paper Series will also function to promote discussion and debate across CBS about leadership and leadership development.

PROGRAMME

12:30-12:45	Welcome! Lunch is served Short update on CBS Leadership
12:45-13:45	"Influence in interaction: The realization of moments of leadership?" Presentation and discussion
13:45-14:00	Break
14:00-15:00	“How much for a female CEO – and who pays the price? Investigating the practices and processes of pricing women leaders in professional executive recruitment" Presentation and discussion

PAPER 1

“Influence in interaction: The realization of moments of leadership?”

While the concept of leadership is used to describe a wide variety of phenomena, over the last few decades the field of leadership studies has shifted from focusing on individual leaders to looking at leadership as a social, practical, and interpersonal process. However, empirical work has lagged behind these theoretical advancements, and the field still lacks both an appropriate methodology to study the moments of leadership and an understanding of the core process of influence. In response, we employ conversation analysis and examine empirical interactions by zooming in on particular leadership moments. We show influence to be an asymmetrical, yet collaborative process, and that a central persuasive device in leadership is the interactional ‘working up’ of attractive prospects for the individual, rather than the relational configuration of leader-follower positions.

Presenter: Magnus Larsson, Associate Professor. Department of Organization

Discussant: Lars Thøger Christensen, Professor, Management, Society and Communication


PAPER 2

“How much for a female CEO – and who pays the price? Investigating the practices and processes of pricing women leaders in professional executive recruitment”
(Co-author: Sara Louise Muhr)

Corporate leadership in the EU in general—and in Denmark specifically—remains anachronistically and overwhelmingly male and white. At the same time, there is high external pressure for gender equality from politicians as well as the general public, and organizations are becoming more and more concerned with increasing the number of women in leadership positions. Because CEO and other top-level positions are often too politically sensitive for internal HR to handle, these recruitment processes are often outsourced to a third parties, typically executive recruitment firms. Despite their influential role, recruitment firms have so far not been able to fulfil the task of creating gender equal boards and C-suites. We therefore ask the following: 1) How are women leaders constructed in terms of cost and price in executive recruiting processes and what are the mechanisms of such pricing? and 2) Who is willing to pay this price?

Presenter: Kai Inga Liehr Storm, Assistant Professor, Department of Production and Business Economics 

Discussant: Minna Paunova, Associate Professor, Management, Society and Communication 

Nicole Ferry, Assistant Professor (Department of Management, Society and Communication) will facilitate the discussions.