Professor Benjamin Laker
Professor of Leadership

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- Identity Work and Legitimacy,
- Intersectionality Theory,
- Leadership Development,
- Strategic Renewal
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Professor Benjamin Laker is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School. He has held a chair since 2018.
His research investigates how organisational actors mobilise identity, legitimacy and meaning-making to navigate contemporary work under conditions of institutional precarity and socio-normative contestation. Resultant studies have been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Human Resource Management Journal, Organizational Research Methods, the British Journal of Management, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Interdisciplinary extensions of this agenda have been published in the Journal of Consumer Research (on identity work and adaptation in contexts of invisible disability), Business History (on historical dynamics of identity and legitimacy), the European Journal of Operational Research (on decision-making under institutional complexity) and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (on how firms respond to systemic disruption).
Benjamin currently serves as Associate Editor at the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Business Research and in 2025 was appointed to REF2029 as a sub-panel member. He also leads Special Issues in Technovation, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Business Research that examine how organisational actors negotiate identity tensions in innovation, the fragility of workplace inclusion and strategic decision-making in non-homogeneous teams.
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Specialisms
- Identity Work and Legitimacy
- Intersectionality Theory
- Leadership Development
- Strategic Renewal
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