Dr Lebene Soga
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Programme Director for the BA International Management and Business Administration Programme
Senior Fellow, UK HEA
Specialisms
- Manager-Employee Relationships,
- Leadership,
- Entrepreneurship Ecosystems,
- Social Aspects of Digital Technology
Location
Dr Lebene Richmond Soga is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Henley Business School and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
His research interests include technology mediated manager-employee practices, entrepreneurship ecosystems and leadership. He has contributed to the Henley Forum for Organisational Learning and Knowledge Strategies to publish practitioner guidance on social technologies in the workplace and draws on his Babson College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) training and entrepreneurship experience to engage students.
Having presented at academic conferences and to managers at a Fortune-200 organisation, he has also published in leading CABS ranked and FT50 journals. His research insights featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Global, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Business Value Exchange and other reputable media outlets.
Lebene welcomes research proposals from potential PhD students with research interests in organisation studies, leadership, entrepreneurship ecosystems and social aspects of technology, particularly artificial intelligence. Currently he co-supervises Rita Nasr, who researches the institutional role of middle level brokers in developing recycling practices, Anna De Amicis, who studies the practices of boundary spanners in the arts, and Isa Machado, who explores the use of artificial intelligence in the hospitality and tourism industry.
Our Relationship with Technology
In a fast-moving world in which information technology can be described as ubiquitous, we are often tempted to take for granted or perhaps not critically consider the impact information technology...
Student Enterprise
This is a dynamic module introducing students to key concepts of business start-up. Students work in a team to identify and develop a new business opportunity, and then seek to...
Most recent news & media
Soga, L., Brigham, M., (2019), "A Netnographic Approach to Understanding Platform-Mediated Forms of Organising", in Proceedings of the 14th Organisation Studies Workshop, Mykonos, Greece.
Godley, A., Morawetz, N., Soga, L., (2019), "The Complementarity Theory Perspective to the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Taxonomy”, Small Business Economics, pp.1-16.
Soga, L. R. (2019). Tracy Kidder, Media Pundits, and the Academe. In M. Spohrer (Ed.), Analytical Frameworks, Applications, and Impacts of ICT and Actor-Network Theory (pp. 112-137). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Soga, L.R., 2016, "Is it The Soul of a New/Lost Machine?" International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, Vol. 8(2), pp.18-31.
Soga, L.R., Vogel, B., Graça, A.M., 2016, "Relational Leadership in a Web 2.0-mediated era", Presented at the 1st Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Rhodes Island, Greece.
Soga, L.R., Vogel, B., and Graça, A.M., 2014, "Leaders as Heterogeneous Networks: An Actor-Network Perspective", In Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference, Belfast, Waterfront, Northern Ireland.
Specialisms
- Manager-Employee Relationships
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- Social Aspects of Digital Technology