Laura Empson

Copenhagen Business School — Denmark

Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences

23h-index3.3kcitations71works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Management and Organizational Studies(36), Legal Education and Practice Innovations(11), Innovation and Knowledge Management(7), Accounting and Organizational Management(7), Gender Diversity and Inequality(6)

Publications71 total

A Relational Approach to Impact: Reflections from a Lifetime 'In the Field'
2025Open Access
The Collective Leadership Paradigm: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Academy of Management Proceedings·2025
Stuck in illusion: Boundary Work and Career Immobility of Paraprofessionals
Academy of Management Proceedings·2025
How to Lead When the Future Feels Unpredictable
CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School)·2024Open Access
Scholars as Workers in the Leadership Industries: Performance Pressures and Professional Identities
Academy of Management Proceedings·2023
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership
Organization Studies·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Researching the Post‐Pandemic Professional Service Firm: Challenging our Assumptions
Journal of Management Studies·2021· 17 citedOpen Access
The Emperor’s New Clothes: How Our Fear of Seeming Stupid Became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Academy of Management Learning and Education·2020· 12 cited
Management Consulting: Towards an Integrative Framework of Knowledge, Identity, and Power
International Journal of Management Reviews·2019· 40 cited
Ambiguous authority and hidden hierarchy: Collective leadership in an elite professional service firm
Leadership·2019· 19 citedOpen Access
Ambiguous Authority and Hidden Hierarchy: Collective Leadership in a Professional Service Firm
Academy of Management Proceedings·2019
From Hippies to Suits: Nested Paradoxical Tensions in CSR Consultants’ Identity Work
Academy of Management Proceedings·2019· 1 cited
Collective Leadership Dynamics among Professional Peers: Co-constructing an unstable equilibrium
Organization Studies·2019· 40 cited
Working time regimes: A panel discussion on continuing problems
German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung·2018
Shooting for the stars: Co-constructing a professional mandate for corporate social responsibility
Academy of Management Proceedings·2018
Climbing invisible walls: The construction of career (im)mobility in liminal professional roles
Academy of Management Proceedings·2018Open Access
Waiting for the Golden Ticket to the Chocolate Factory
2018
Leading Professionals
Oxford University Press eBooks·2017· 29 cited
Leadership Constellation
Oxford University Press eBooks·2017
Leading Discreetly
Oxford University Press eBooks·2017
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Frequent Co-authors

Louise Ashley(4), Ann Langley(4), Szilvia Mosonyi(3), Bob Hinings(3), Timothy Morris(2), Ioana Lupu(2), Johan Alvehus(2), Daniel Muzio(2), Royston Greenwood(1), Mats Alvesson(1), Imogen Cleaver(1), Jeremy Allen(1), Christopher S. Chapman(1), Tim Morris(1), Crawford Spence(1), Jean‐Pascal Gond(1), J Broschack(1), Viviane Sergi(1), Joseph P. Broschak(1), Muzio(1)