Professor Benjamin Laker
Professor of Leadership
Postgraduate Research Director, Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation

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- Identity,
- Leadership,
- Organisation Studies,
- Strategy
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Professor Benjamin Laker is a Professor of Leadership and Postgraduate Research Director in the department of Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation at Henley Business School. He has held his chair since 2018.
His research examines how organisational actors navigate contested social systems across two interrelated themes. The first explores how identity is constructed amid complexity and pluralism, with findings published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Human Relations and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Benjamin's second theme analyses how actors' interpretive frames and constructions of legitimacy, emerging from micro-level processes, enable organisational renewal, with findings published in Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Business Ethics, the European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management and Business History.
Managerial insights derived from Benjamin's research themes have informed almost 50 Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review articles, as well as five bestselling books - including two co-authored with the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Long Range Planning: Closing The Service Gap (Financial Times, 2023) and Job Crafting (The MIT Press, 2024). These titles have been endorsed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, McKinsey and Company and the Financial Times.
Benjamin is an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Business Research, where he also serves as Executive Guest Editor of a special issue focused on how identity-diverse teams engage in strategic decision-making.
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